On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 17:39, Hiro Antagonist wrote: > No offense Dinesh, but why do you have to be a skeptic every time > someone comes up with a brilliant idea? Instead of being skeptical and > pointing out the shortcomings, why not come up with suggestions on how > to improve and refine the ideas? I believe that in every democracy, there should be a DAP. Or Taiwainese Parliment for that sake > The future of the open source movement > in Malaysia is not that bleak. I agree, but it takes a lot of work. Wen Kiat, tm, is doing the right thing, but right things does not necessary lend to successful things. But that aside, I'm all for helping. What with the magic words "Extra Income" > After all, Rome was not built in a day, > or so the Italians say. There's more than one way to skin a cat. That's what I say.. > > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:09:57 +0800, "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.com> > said: > > On 31/12/2004 15:45 Chua Wen Kiat said the following: > > > change on the syllabus. It's not going to happen when m$ is frequently > > > donating $ into education sector, but... some institutions are already > > > teaching open source as one of their sub subjects. That's a good sign. > > > > in which case, i'd like to see how you'd motivate students to get > > involved > > with the club and forsake the brainwashing which they'll be subjected to > > in > > the classroom. > > > > > or Rewards will be pump in to motivate the students to "try" open > > > source. We have monthly activities and mega activities coming up. > > > > like i said, if it convinces them enough to insist to their academic > > superiors to "open" up the syllabus, then you'd have done some real long > > term good for the education sector. > > > > -- > > Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." > > dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ > > +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ > > | for a in past present future; do > > | > > | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do > > | > > | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." > > | > > | done; done > > | > > +=========================================================================+ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe: send mail to myoss-request@my-opensource.org > > with "unsubscribe myoss" in the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe: send mail to myoss-request@my-opensource.org > with "unsubscribe myoss" in the body of the message