Re: [ossig] Linux jobs in .my! a private reply

["Charles F. Moreira" <cfm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colin,

> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:31, Kenneth Wong wrote:
> 
> > Believe that stuff is already in the works. Look up mampu and open
> > source - that's government implementation of a national OSS policy.
> > Their partners are IBM and DRB-Hicom if I'm not mistaken. Those 
> might> be good people to talk to about some sort of partnership.
> 
> So now, is open source the hype du jour today in Malaysia, or is 
> it here
> to stay?
> 
> Past hypes: MSC, K-Economy, E-Village, Biotech Park, Cyberjaya, sodomy
> (!)
> 
> (this was typed in half-jest, if you really want to flame me, "a 
> privatereply" would be better, rather than annoying the list; plus 
> that gives
> me the option of moving it to /dev/null :) )

Flame you for speaking the truth?

You forgot to include the KomNas PC from Hicom Technologies which I 
found a good, self-contained, Linux PC with a very intuitive user 
interface but it did not seem to have taken off.

Government support and national initiatives are great provided they are 
properly executed and then will be able to pull the private sector 
along.

However, when this core is in a mess, with conflicting and incompetent 
interests at play, all that's left to hope for is good private 
innitiatives on the periphery.

Time will tell but between China and India, I believe China will 
eventually emerge the winner due to the strong, concerted government 
support for the technology industry, while India has brillinat 
individuals but a chaotic government sector.

BTW. Just heard that Singapore's National Trade Union Congress 
(www.ntuc.org.sg) has introduced Linux PCs through its Fairprice 
supermarkets and i-Office outlets about three months ago.

I'd like to see how successful they are in terms of consumer acceptance.

With Singapore track record for efficiency and transparency, I believe 
NTUC's project could succeed where others in the region have failed.

Their consultant and solutions provider is Stephan M. February, CTO of 
Adeptiva Linux Pte Ltd. (www.adeptiva.com)
E-mail: stephan@adeptiva.com


Charles

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> you, 
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