and I'll like to add one more point to sensei Azrul.... Having spent public money, yours and mine hard earned $, shouldn't these SW should then be made OSS? - in other words availabe to the public?
2010/2/19 Azrul MADISA <[email protected]>: > There is nothing wrong if a company or an individual wants to use prop. > technology. Pay the license and knock yourself out. But when it comes to > gov. education instituion, glc or any entity with public/national interest, > transparency is a must and potential lock down by anyone be it Microsoft or > Google is not a luxury one can enjoy. This is because any entity with > public/national interest at its heart must be as independent as the nation > it upholds. Allowing willy nilly lock down should be equated to treachery, > at least in spirit. Now, nothing here says that FOSS solution should be > cheap, in fact, it should be more expensive since the creator releases > control of his intelectual property in total. > > > > Azrul Sensei > > 2010/2/17 red1 <[email protected]> >> >> Minggu lepas ketika saya berada di Paris menyertai Paris JUG (Java User >> Group), saya perhati ramai yang menggunakan Windows walaupun berbincang >> pasal Java punya FOSS. Pencipta JBoss, iaitu Marc Fleury pun memberi >> syarahan kerana dia memang orang Perancis. JBoss sudah dijual olehnya ke >> RedHat. Jutawan lah dia ni. Budaya sana pun kuat mengikuti Google dan lebih >> suka GWT daripada ZK Ajax yang digunakan dalam ADempiere. Kemudian terbang >> ke Munich, terkandas kerana salji dan bermalam di lapangan terbang >> Amsterdam. Semasa menunggu penerbangan pengganti keesokan pagi, perhati PC >> bimbit orang sekeliling mengunakan OS windows. Dalam kapal terbang kembali >> ke KLIA sebelah saya pula seorang freelancer Belanda yang buat CMS pakai C# >> yang Open Source tetapi windows based. Dia kata tak terfikir mau pergi ke >> Java. Gembira seorang diri kompeni sendiri tanpa pekerja. Masa itu dia ingin >> bercuti ke Australia. >> >> Kesimpulannya banyak kuasa pengaruh dari gergasi komersil dunia yang >> menentukan hala tuju sekarang bercampurkan FOSS. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -- #------- regds, Boh Heong, Yap -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
