Re: [ossig] Govt ICT infrastructure

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my>]

I have forwarded that very good question to the head
of iVest development.

Unfortunately iVEST is a business unit which
(it seems to me), like much of the rest of
corporate Malaysia, is not yet totally convinced about
the business case for developing in an open source manner.

Constant pressure and awareness is the only solution
I can see.


Imran


Mukhsein Johari wrote:
> > 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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Imran William Smith
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MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

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