+1 . You have my vote sir. On Feb 25, 8:58 pm, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear fellow inmates, i mean freedom fighters. Sorry for this but after > watching lots of Al-Jazeerah, it finally hits me. We should no longer be > afraid of voicing out our grievances against govt's depts inefficiencies > and failures in promoting local talent or at least believing in locals > as budding technopreneurs who can one day succeed, given real support > instead of intimidation. > > No, no i am not saying that we are living under a 30 year dictatorship. > I am saying we are living in a P. Ramlee's era of been afraid to voice > out and that is why P. Ramlee died a pauper, broken man, broken in by > his own country. > > What Tahrir's Square teaches us is that today's youth and mostly in > OSDC.my are indeed hungry for change and self-sufficiency in using FOSS, > but lacked the support the govt supposedly is there for, which sadly > comes in bits and scraps, some big RM10m promise and then silence and > denials as well as diversions and excuses. We are worse than Tahrir Square. > > Such big events happening across the thousand year history of Sahara > desert must bring something home to us. It must at least stir us to > reach for more solidarity and courage to kick ass. I once again call for > the formation of an adhoc committee (non-registered, to hell with ROS) > for MOSS to put political pressure on the govt to change the unwritten > policy of supporting proprietary software and paying lip service to FOSS > all this while. > > red1
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