{"id":60,"date":"2004-03-06T19:37:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T00:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=60"},"modified":"2004-03-06T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-07T00:37:46","slug":"malaysian-open-source-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/06\/malaysian-open-source-policy","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Open Source policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lot&#8217;s of work to do. More interesting training notes to come out, under a nice open license, similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/training.bytebot.net\/\">my OOo training notes<\/a>. Fedora Core 2, Gnome 2.6, OOo 1.1.1 &#8211; are my main concerns. And of course, getting the images ready for roll-out. Thoughts on a backup system, like those laptops that come with recovery partitions &#8211; can we do that on Linux? Like getting System Imager to &#8220;restore&#8221; stuff from a &#8220;hidden&#8221; partition?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, policy time. Policy is being written by many folks, not even convinced of the open source movement. These are folk still running Microsoft-ware for their day-to-day work, e-mail client (the famous Outlook) included. My faith in policy just took a turn for the worse&#8230;<\/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%20Malaysian%20Open%20Source%20policy&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F03%2F06%2Fmalaysian-open-source-policy&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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Thoughts on a backup system, like those laptops that come with [&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%20Malaysian%20Open%20Source%20policy&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F03%2F06%2Fmalaysian-open-source-policy&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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