On Nov 16, 11:26 am, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> > __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 16 November 2006 16:35 \__
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> >> B Gruff <bbgr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> >>> "In his first "meet the press" session as ICT Minister, Professor
> >>> Sitthichai Pokai-udom put forth his radical vision for 3G in Thailand,
> >>> condemned open source for turning out buggy, useless software and promised
> >>> to make the civil servants in the ICT Ministry proud of their organisation
> >>> once again"
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> >>> "On the subject of open source software, he said the current government
> >>> plan was a case of the blind leading the blind, as neither the people who
> >>> are in charge nor the people in industry seem to know the dangers of open
> >>> source software"
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> >>> "With open source, there is no intellectual property. Anyone can use it
> >>> and all your ideas become public domain. If nobody can make money from it,
> >>> there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes
> >>> outdated," he said.
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> >>> "Apart from Linux, he claimed that most open source software is often
> >>> abandoned and not developed, and leads to a lot of low-quality software
> >>> with lots of bugs"
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> >>> "As a programmer, if I can write good code, why should I give it away?
> >>> Thailand can do good source code without open source," he said.
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> >>>http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/15Nov2006_data001.php
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> >>> (I'm not going to comment at this time, but I will read all responses with
> >>> considerable interest, having had significant business dealings in
> >>> Thailand in the past)
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> >> What's amazing is that open-source is now so important that government
> >> ministers feel the need to base their strategic statements around how
> >> they are or are not going to use it. If he'd thought about this at all,
> >> he'd have realised that simply having to say that he /didn't/ want to
> >> use open-source software means that it's more important than the
> >> proprietary stuff.
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> >> Coffee - smell!
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> > I tried to identify connections between that minister and Gates (Microsoft as
> > well), but I wasn't successful.
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> > I had a Thai colleague in my office just before he finished his Ph.D. He was
> > keen on learning Linux (among other things, such as Liverpool) and I vividly
> > recall him rocoiling in disgust when the Thai government struck a deal with
> > Microsoft... he was upset enough to tell me this while pointing at his
> > minitor. The deal was intended to provide Office for some schools, or
> > something along these lines. These comes as an adversity if you consider
> > larger neighbouring countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, China and
> > India... all of which plan a move to Linux (Debian, Opensuse or Fedora) and
> > Open Source.It does go to show how easy it is for a large organisation like
> Microsoft to corrupt a government like the Thai one.
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> > I would not have been surprised if the Chinese government was the one to
> > strike a deal and tap on Bill Gates' shoulder.
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> >| I believe that most people do not grasp the immense entity of Microsoft.
> >| This is an organization and a man who commands the attention and bidding
> >| of world leaders. On a recent trip to America, the President of China
> >| spent his first evening in the United States, not with our President,
> >| but Bill Gates. He was the guest of the Gates mansion that first
> >| evening and the guest of honor for a dinner attended by over one
> >| hundred people. Why? To ask him to crack down on Software piracy
> >| and to insure that his computer manufacturers put Microsoft Windows
> >| on thier newly made machines instead of shipping them with no OS. He
> >| didn't see the President of the United States for over 36 hours...he
> >| spent that time with Bill Gates at his home and at the Redmond
> >| Campus.
> > `----
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> >http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/88-Treachery-In-The-T...
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> > Bill Gates and the Chinese government adopt a regime that's suppressant,
> > involves controlling people's mind and is in short.... totalitarian. Those
> > two can truly see eye to eye, I'm sure. The apple doesn't fall far from the
> > tree.
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> > Best wishes,
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> > Roy--
> | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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I don't get why anyone would ever use microsoft?
Linux work fine, all you need to do is keep programmer around not
marketing schmucks. and dont mix in windows, keep linux pure including
the desktop
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