[ossig] ICT Industry To Get A Boost With Perks

[Nur Hussein]

Ahhh Microsoft. Open source is such a dirty word for them :D

Companies should adapt or die. What do they want, welfare? I thought they
believed in a free market. If the "respect commercial platform" (Read :
Windows, .NET, all that other MS crap) isn't working out and the public
sector is their *intended market*, they should accomodate the market, not
the other way round.

- Nur Hussein

On 9/2/06, Dr Molly Cheah <drcheah at pc.jaring.my> wrote:
>
> > Microsoft Malaysia said the Budget 2007 underscored the government's
> > continued commitment towards the growth of the ICT sector as witnessed
> > in the various incentives.
> >
> > Its director of public sector, Abdul Rahman Abu Haniffa, said the
> > government should re-evaluate the open source software procurement
> > preference because the current preference disadvantages local
> > companies developing software on their respective commercial platform,
> > more so if the Malaysian public sector is their intended market.
> >
> > He said the current policy may also discourage foreign investment and
> > talents from flowing into Malaysia and encourage local talents to
> > leave for other countries which (in their view) would be providing
> > greater financial incentives and protection for software creation as
> > well as innovation.
> >
> > -- BERNAMA
>
>
>
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