I concede my first point and i tarik balik tuduhan. I owe you one daun
pisang at Raju's.
One the 2nd last point below, i think if we can show them the numbers,
i.e. FOSS can generate 1% of GDP as i found out from some UN report
(while squatting in OSCC with Raja some time ago), i think we can prove
that innovation from FOSS far outweigh the short term benefit of
proprietary tax.
A smarter nation is a more productive and innovative one, with perhaps
some Nobel prize geniuses in the offing. Now that is worth a billion to
the country if we got just one miserable candidate.
On 4/3/11 6:04 PM, Boh Yap wrote:
hi Red1,
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM, red1<[email protected]> wrote:
Boh, it is ok in Malaysia because the man they hire to head MDec is not that
technical either. Raja told me he is a salesman. And MOSTI big wigs are left
to law abiding beaurocrats. I use to see their job specs with a smallprint
in it: "Follow any other orders that may be given by your superior from time
to time in compliance with General Orders." There won't be room for
creativity.
hiring the ppl with the 'right skills' for the job is not even
'innovation', its just basic competency! If hiring someone with tech
skills to fill some management position is considered "innovation", I
really feel (bad) for Malaysia, we got a looooong way to go...
In Brunei someone told me that govt is not a good innovator. But it is a
good regulator. Thus they should come out with taxation or exemption to
generate creativity. For example, if you installed your own instead of
paying propretary vendors, you get to claim tax exemption to the amount of
money you saved.
Trust me. There will be a gold rush for OSDC.my membershp forms.
Ha, this will be good if it happens, but then there is a serious
"conflict of interest". The vendors won't be able to make tons of
money from services, so the gov. cannot tax them as much, and they
have to give out money to the smart customers! - not gonna happen....
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