I promise myself not to bitch too much but this is such a troll bait, I have to bite.
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to belittle OSCC here, it's just that I believe that claims must be backed by facts, not just some numbers plucked from the air (maybe the facts are there that I just couldn't find it, if so, please point me to the right direction). My beef is this, how the heck do you get 70% from? just because a wannabe geek inside a gov. office uses OOo suddenly the whole office is counted as "adopting open source"? What about mixed environment, how do you count that? What's the methodology? What about running OOo on Windows? is that opensource or not? Things like these are important because it helps us to focus on what is needed. I mean, FOSS (OSS/FLOSS/whatever) is supposed to be winning and yet MS is laughing all the way to the bank with our tax money, what gives? The next guy shouting "cybermerdeka!" would be laughed at and yet the gov still kow-tow to Balmer like he's some enlighten being or something. Didn't someone say that the greatest achievement of the devil is to convince the world he does not exist... not necessarily true, but... Note: a more relevant study would show how much licenses purchased say last year compared to this year and how much we actually spend and how much saving is done. I guess those numbers are just too depressing to be released. Azrul On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > Better bitch about our own country then pitch for the world. :) > > The world is taking notice of us > http://www.opensource.org/node/489 > > Open Source Progress in Malaysia > Thu, 2009-11-05 07:57 — Michael Tiemann > > Here are some stunning facts that were published at the end of July in > Malaysia <http://www.asmmag.com/news/open-source-dominates-in-malaysia>: > > More than 70 percent of Malaysian government offices are running open > source software, according to figures released by the country's Open Source > Competency Centre. > > The centre was established as part of the 2004 Malaysian Public Sector OSS > Master Plan, to guide and co-ordinate the implementation of OSS in the > public sector. > > The latest OSS adoption figures, released on 24 July, show that 521 of the > country's 724 public sector agencies (72 per cent) have adopted OSS. This is > a significant increase from 354 agencies (49 percent) in 2008 and 163 (22.5 > per cent) in 2007. > > Malaysia is certainly raising the bar in terms of open source adoption and > leadership! > > - Michael Tiemann's blog <http://www.opensource.org/blog/8> > - > Login<http://www.opensource.org/user/login?destination=comment/reply/489%2523comment-form>or > > register<http://www.opensource.org/user/register?destination=comment/reply/489%2523comment-form>to > post comments > > > -- > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > Facebook Fan page > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<osdcmy-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
