Re: [ossig] can the ossig community help to do something +ve ?

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@xxxxxxxx>]

Great, thank's for the link.

The name of the corporation "Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia"
would make Richard Stallman shudder.  I tried asking him a question whether
the FSF, or a new foundation, should move into promoting the
freedom of the wider issue ntellectual property now the war
on freedom of software was already being won.  Stallman only heard
'intellectual property' before giving me his 5 minute prepared speech on
why it was a dangerous term.  When I had a chance to elaborate later,
he said that freedom in software still needed nurturing, and that was his
area of expertise anyway.

I agree totally on the k-economy.  The mgmt of MIMOS is also, I believe, 
very
much behind what you say and support open source and openness in
general as a way to achieve a k-economy.  The difficulty is spreading 
the word
wider, and getting others past the 'releasing something is throwing away 
profits'
mentality.  Intellectual property means giving the author the freedom to do
what they want.  Maybe MIPC is heavily influenced by WIPO?


Imran

Raja Iskandar Shah wrote:

>it is now under perbadanan harta intelek: www.mipc.gov.my
>
>there's a .pdf format of the Copyright Act 1987 to be downloaded.
>
>the laws are very clear. but when it comes to implementation the people
>there are totally confused about oss. they do not seem to understand
>that oss is a form of copyright and licensed work. their understanding
>that oss will dilute malaysia's stand on intellectual property. we need
>the oss community to address this issue.
>
>the whole point for malaysia to adopt oss is to move up from a p-economy
>(where our economy is dependent on products / production) to the
>k-economy (the knowledge economy where our intellectual assets have
>greater importance). these people at mipc do not get this.
>
>india certainly has got it. they have built a huge industry exporting
>skilled knowledge through their IT contracting and outsourcing business.
>they are less known for any IT product, but their industry is huge.
>
>and oss promotes this form of skills building. 
>
>
>Raja Iskandar Shah
>http://riscniaga.netfirms.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my>
>Date: Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:40 am
>Subject: Re: [ossig] can the ossig community help to do something +ve ?
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>>Has anyone ever read the Malaysia copyright act (1987)?
>>
>>If so, do you know where I can get an online copy?  The
>>only site I can find is a copy at UNESCO :( Not surprising it's
>>not widely followed if it takes such a long time to even find
>>what the law says.
>>
>>Of course, you can buy a physical copy (I think we have one
>>in the library here, but it's taken out and chasing it up takes
>>too long) - but what a waste of time, really, to have to buy
>>it on paper.
>>
>>Imran
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>>nplee wrote:
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Imran William Smith,
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