Indeed, reviving spirit of OSS supporter. I like the change.... On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 > > MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification > http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
