Re: [ossig] Govt ICT infrastructure

[Mukhsein Johari <pythonium@yahoo.com>]

> 
> MIMOS is one of the parties requesting that a
> national OSS policy is
> drawn up.
> 

Hmm...so why won't MIMOS publish specs for the ivest
smart card reader and card (which go into MyKad and
such)? I asked them for it and the person who
responded was very evasive about it and then just
stopped. I explained that I wanted to write drivers
for open source OSes and (plugins for open source
programs to use the PKI) they simply said "we'll be
releasing a linux version soon" Hmph. What use are
binaries?!? Will it work for all linux distros? What
about BSDs? What if I wanted to write software for
embedded devices? (sigh)

Support for FOSS in gov and gov-related orgs is simply
at the lip-service level as far as I'm concerned.

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