Malaysian Government Prefers Open Code

Suresh Gnasegarah writes "All Malaysian government technology procurement will now have a preference for open source software (OSS), under the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software Masterplan. The masterplan's near-term targets includes: 60% of all new servers able to run OSS operating systems, 30% of office infrastructure -- like e-mail, DNS, proxy servers -- on OSS, and 20% of school computer labs to have OSS applications such as productivity suites installed. Looks like old Bill's scare tactic that OSS software kills jobs didn't quite work. Another victory for the open source software movement!"

malaymoz

[Ari_Haviv]

can we get them to use firefox?

Re:math?

[Anonymous Coward]

They use Metric measuring units, you Imperial insensitive clod!

Re:pretty much a no brainer

[sockonafish]

Microsoft donates huge amounts of money (relative to there economy) to forign university's which basically provides them with free Microsoft products.

And after they graduate, they continue to use Microsoft products for free! omg piracy lol!

It has to be said...

[atlasheavy]

OSS Software? Is that anything like Homer's BBBQ, where the extra B is for BYOBB? (the other 'B' is a typo...)

teh GPL

[Anonymous Coward]

I love that typo, it's so trollish. It is aided by the fact that it can be said in a troll-like voice "teh".

Every fine and upstanding BSD fan loaths the sound of "teh GPL" but I love it.

Re:This is great!

[raju1kabir]

With the success of the Multimedia Super Cooridor

What success? And how old is that article? 5 years?

Last I heard they had decided it was going to be the biotechnology supercorridor instead, as soon as they could come up with a way to keep the same acronym so they wouldn't have to change the signs. Welcome to Biojaya, garden city. Don't eat the hyperintelligent coconuts; we need them to do our urban planning.

And three years from now it will be the Fuel Cell Supercorridor, or whatever the fad du jour is.

s/perscribe/prescribe/

[bersl2]

I still have dictionary.com open to that page...

Re:s/perscribe/prescribe/

[Tim C]

Yeah, but it's funnier when people correcting the spelling or grammar of other people make mistakes themselves :-)

Re:math?

[Ari_Haviv]

in the Soviet Union, the Imperials measure YOU!