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

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 14:38 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> > 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.

Agreed. I'm guessing this was a private reply, but oh well ;-)

> 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.

I'd like to pick your brain a little further on that. Box pushers... Is
a broad definition:
	a company that sells Linux "services", i.e. they integrate Red Hat
Linux on a box from HP/IBM and probably install the company's network

Is that what we have a lot of in Malaysia? 

Do we have any companies in Malaysia, that not only push out boxes of
Red Hat, on IBM boxes, but also provide bug fixes (a new RPM, because
everyone here knows Red Hat sucks at providing rpms :P), enhancements
(in a simple form, let's say with an OpenOffice.org macro), simple
custom applications (say, in gtk+/python) or even custom web stuff (like
an intranet PHP-based time scheduler)? I.e. a _true_ services company
[1] ?

Let's not even get into training. The amount of firms that can "lie"
their way thru about knowing open source program X is scary. I've seen
faxes from companies with "an RHCE on board", who will train you. Give
them a call (I had some free time on the train), and ask a few
questions, and then they throw me off the line saying that I'm already
an RHCE[2]

[1] - and this can extend to Mac OS X, just replace examples there with
Cocoa, though mac python is pretty nifty. Or Mono/.NET for some more
cross platformness
[2] - and I'm not
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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