It really means nothing. It really takes talent in making up so much words but say absolutely nothing we all did not know already.
Eric On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel < [email protected]> wrote: > Team, > > One of the MOSTI respond > > > http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/breakingviews/article/mostis-response-to-ditesh-gathani/ > > > Malaysia’s stand and position at the International ISO Standard > Committee on Open Source Technology: > > On November 21, 2006, the former minister of science, technology and > innovation announced that the government was adopting a neutral > technology platform policy that does not favour either open source > software (OSS) or proprietary software, and that government > procurement policy is now based on merit and not on platform choice. > This position does not void Mampu's open source software and MOSTI > believes that it is important to support both the proprietary and > open-source development model in procurement practices because both > are sources of innovation that the government has an interest in > encouraging. The government has large varieties of IT systems, each of > which is tailored to the needs of individual departments. These > departments need to communicate, and this is facilitated, to a certain > extent, by the use of open interoperability protocols and common, open > data formats. Thus, the right solution is to make no preference with > respect to open-source or proprietary software, instead, favouring > open protocols and data formats. In fact, the suggestion by the author > for the government to intervene and favour one versus the other is in > itself contradicting the author’s own comments to let the software > ecosystem be as it is and compete on their own. > > > > -- > Malaysia Open Source Software Conference 2011 > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 > > http://www.mosc.my/ > > LinuxMalaysia Network > http://www.facebook.com/Bukan.Sekadar.Internet.Sahaja > > Harisfazillah Jamel > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/ > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
