"IBM, Micorosoft protest Indonesia's open source policy"
Washington DC (ANTARA News) - A number of US informatic technology companies such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have criticized Indonesia`s open source application policy. The protest was delivered directly to visiting Indonesian Research and Technology Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman here on Friday (Saturday in Indonesia). Under its open source application policy, Indonesia uses sytems without licenses formed by the user country itself and for its own interest. Microsoft considered that Indonesia has discredited the license product protected by property rights such as what was produced by Microsoft. Microsoft said that Indonesian government`s support to the open source application could threat market of informatic technology (IT) software produced by some US IT giant companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle. Meanwhile, Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman said that the Indonesian Government actually support both of them, license application and open source application. He explained that the Indonesian Government gave choices to people to use license application or open sources. "The important thing is people use the legal application," he said. According to him, the using of legal application was so important as it gave a big chance for Indonesia to be excluded from "priority watch list", namely a list of countries who have been categorized as property rights pirates. At the moment Indonesia is one country of the top rank at the priority watch list. Some high education institutions choosing the open source application, among others are the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) as well as other institutions. They chose it as the price is much cheaper than license application as well as it is legal category. (*) ### membaca berita diatas saya sangat tertawa karena ketahuan sekali bahwa para petinggi perusahaan diatas sangat takut market nya hilang !! hingga harus protes kepada Minister yang kerap berkampanye penerapan OSS untuk efisiensi keuangan negara Now I know why de reason our Presiden and team accepted very familiar with Bill Gates :)) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Official Web Site : http://www.awari.or.id Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asosiasi-warnet/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
