Re: [ossig] HP's Linux notebook a unique case: Analysts

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Nan Phin wrote:

> Such opportunities are not likely to happen very often. Gartner
> Asia-Pacific research director Dion Wiggins pointed out that the Linux
> products would never have been created if the Thai government had not
> started the ball rolling, helped by the urging of Prime Minister Thaksin
> Shinawatra.
[..snipped..]
> "The government set the minimum hardware specifications and the price,
> and the only way vendors could meet that was to go Linux," he said.

these two paragraphs sum up nicely why it happened. a proactive government
with the interest of their industry and their nation at heart, instead of
succumbing to the interests of mnc vendors. the political will to take
this step is missing in malaysia.

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