[ossig] [myoss] Appeal of Neutral Software Approach. A rebuttal.

[Khairil Yusof]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:27 +0800, Ditesh Kumar wrote:

> She has a duty to do a job, but she also has a higher duty to be a
> Malaysian and to do what is right for our country. 

It's not too different from people selling out their country piece by
piece to the British East India company.

- introduce laws to protect foreign company
  (software patents)
- impose company policies/laws on local governments
- divide and conquer (state by state, country by country - FTA)
- monopolise local market
- reduce colonised country workers to the low level non intellectual
  work (plantation workers of k-economy) by denying access to knowledge
- promises of "possible benefits" to the locals

In most of these cases, local agents were the drivers over a period of
time, which worked better than short term violent take over.

I've often repeated "to do a job" is not an excuse. If I was a mafia
hitman, I can't go to the police and say "I'm just doing my job". You
can't dump pollutants into rivers because of a legal loophole and say
"I'm just doing my job and increasing profits for my company".

The same applies to people selling Malaysians out. Society should
rightfully look down on such people.

YK was asking the questions on the "potential benefits" these sellouts
are espousing. An immediate point of view we can look out are the
immediate economic costs and restrictions towards development due to
current regime of restricted markets and (imposing further) restrictions
on free agents.

What these sellouts often forget is that they are not the "free agent"
whose rights are being restricted.