My view on MSC: it has never been about technology. It's more of a real estate project, something that helps to boost property industry, though short-lived. Sad but true. On Aug 15, 2012 6:08 PM, "Boh Yap" <bhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> MSC has been around close to 2 decades, and while we are still playing > around as bureaucrats lets compare what other 'MSCs' are doing.... > > NICTA- National ICT Australia, started in 2002, officially opened in 2004. > > One of their 'subsidiaries' is ERTOS, a R&D facility. They developed a > microkernel OS, > based on L4, a second generation microkernel architecture, with some > relation to GNU's HURD project... > > On this they built a "secure", "verifiable" embedded OS, > > (see the cool stuff they work on... http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/) > > ERTOS spun off Open Kernel Labs (became a commercial entity), and has > another L4 uKernel OS called OKL4, which can be used as a hypervisor > for virtualisation or run standalone as a embedded OS. Already > licensed by Motorola and Qualcomm (a manf. of chips used in mobile > phones) on millions of phones! > > """ > OKL4 has been deployed on over 300 million devices, mostly mobile > phones, both as a baseband operating system and for hosting guest > operating systems. Most notable and visible is the company's design > win at Motorola for the Evoke QA4 messaging phone, the first phone > which employs virtualization to support two concurrent operating > systems (Linux and BREW) on a single processor core. > > OK Labs and OKL4 are the result of collaboration among academia, > business, and open-source development. > """ > > They also ported Android onto the L4 microkernel... > > http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/software/androidokl4/ > > Done my a student as a undergrd thesis! See, their Comp Sc students do > real suff, > not study to pass a MS or CisCO cert!? > > Now, that's doing real technology! > > And look at the ppl leading the organisation: (definitely not bureaucrats!) > http://www.nicta.com.au/about/management (count the PHd's there...) > > And they don't need no stinking NCPB! > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 6:47 AM, sweemeng ng <swees...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Don't forget the recent evidence act, and a proposal to amend the > multimedia > > act. > > > > I think they are scaring away investor for the IT sector! Especially the > way > > certain minister talk > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Boh Yap <bhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> question? > >> > >> do those who are supposed to lead/guide us in Technology, really > >> understand/promote technology, or they are more like bureaucrats? > >> > >> answer: > >> > >> they seem to be spending more effort in bureaucracy, than on > >> technology.. re: the NCPB. > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:02 AM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > >> > Question is does MOSTI or <name of agencies withheld> know this? The > >> > best > >> > web-scrapers (not that i know what it means) in the world were living > in > >> > Malaysia and Facebook spotted them and bought them as the 3rd FB > >> > aquisition. > >> > > >> > This explains our index rankings of late. > >> > > >> > > >> > On 8/10/12 10:22 AM, Azrul MADISA wrote: > >> > > >> > This is 2010? > >> > > >> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:15 AM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> That Facebook bought a Malaysian startup in 2010 just to get those > >> >> brains > >> >> in that company? > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-facebook-just-buy-exactly-and-why/ > >> >> > >> >> This makes me so proud. > >> >> > >> >> red1 > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > >> > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > >> > > >> > OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook > >> > http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ > >> > > >> > Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 > >> > MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/ > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> #------- > >> regds, > >> > >> Boh Heong, Yap > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > >> http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > >> > >> OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook > >> http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ > >> > >> Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 > >> MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/ > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Just a random living organic computer code generator > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > > > OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook > > http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ > > > > Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 > > MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/ > > > > -- > #------- > regds, > > Boh Heong, Yap > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ > > Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 > MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/ > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/