{"id":173,"date":"2004-06-29T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=173"},"modified":"2004-06-29T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T06:10:15","slug":"more-on-bills-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/29\/more-on-bills-agenda","title":{"rendered":"More on Bill&#8217;s agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linux <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/stories\/afp_world_business\/view\/92771\/1\/.html\">isn&#8217;t a threat for him in Asia<\/a>! He wants to boost the Malaysian IT sector, and make a bunch of MS drones &#8211; Prime Minister, please listen, and remember, there are alternatives &#8211; Apple&#8217;s OS X, Linux, and many others. <\/p>\n<p>Education minister signed a 5-year contract, titled &#8220;Partners in Learning&#8221; &#8211; teachers and students are getting on the MS-track! RM10 million is a lot of moolah to be throwing around &#8211; why could this not have been farmed out to an open source training company or association?<\/p>\n<p>At least he mentions that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/feeds\/ap\/2004\/06\/28\/ap1436747.html\">talent needs to be cultivated<\/a>. Seems Malaysians rank <em>&#8220;low in terms of know-how&#8221;<\/em>. The usual education needs to be revamped stance shows itself, but now that they&#8217;re &#8220;locked-in&#8221; for five years, I don&#8217;t see how that&#8217;s a revamp, considering this was the case, five-years before too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20More%20on%20Bill%27s%20agenda&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F06%2F29%2Fmore-on-bills-agenda&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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He wants to boost the Malaysian IT sector, and make a bunch of MS drones &#8211; Prime Minister, please listen, and remember, there are alternatives &#8211; Apple&#8217;s OS X, Linux, and many others. Education minister signed a 5-year contract, titled &#8220;Partners in Learning&#8221; &#8211; teachers and students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20More%20on%20Bill%27s%20agenda&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F06%2F29%2Fmore-on-bills-agenda&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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My main aim is to make it run Fedora with all its bells and whistles (and hope it lasts longer than 2 years; the older IBM can't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":63,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/09\/will-pc-gemilang-succeed-in-malaysian-waters","url_meta":{"origin":173,"position":1},"title":"Will PC Gemilang succeed in Malaysian waters?","date":"9\/3\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, my response might be a bit biased, but it's because this is something dear to me - it should also be dear to the OSS community, with Fedora, Gnome, and OOo being key players here. 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