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

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/10/2004 23:15 Charles F. Moreira said the following:
> Government support and national initiatives are great provided they are 
> properly executed and then will be able to pull the private sector 
> along.

on this, i think part of the blame should also fall on the shoulders of the 
malaysian ICT industry. too many of them are out to make a quick buck 
without investing/concentrating on building technology. they'd rather trade 
relationships for buddy/crony deals than work towards leveraging off the 
strengths open source gives us.

i've met many open source companies, and while there are a few gems among 
those, the vast majority of companies which bill themselves "open source 
companies" are nothing more than box pushers reselling redhat. many times, 
the boxes aren't their own either, but rather come from HP and IBM.

> Time will tell but between China and India, I believe China will 
> eventually emerge the winner due to the strong, concerted government 

it's a tough call, but i'm predicting that china will come out tops in 
telecommunications and infrastructure technologies while india will ace it 
in software applications. china's software industry is still too nascent to 
have india worried about them, while the chinese government's push for it's 
electronics, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors is very admirable. 
one only needs to look at the large chinese cellular firms, china unicom 
and china mobile for example, to see how they've rolled out world class 
cellular networks with indigenous chinese technologies.

plus, the irony of today is, many infrastructure devices are actually made 
in china while many "american" software firms are actually indian companies 
incorporated in the US of A.

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