Among community members, we do have a few that do support on FLOSS, btw when talking about FLOSS adoption in govt, don't forget about infrastructure migration on OS, or database etc, that do save a lot of money, the license for the proprietary software they replacing is just INSANE.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:53 AM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > >> http://www.opensource.org/node/535 - >> Malaysian Government has reached 97% OSS Adoption and saves >> http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2010/07/05/open-source-saves-malaysian-government-rm188-million >> RM188! Yep we got the numbers! Nape? Tak caya ke? Tak leh bawa bank kah? >> Kene tunjuk cash jugak ka? Nama je bank. Tolong orang kaya saja... >> >> sudahla... :) >> > > Lets capitalize on this opportunity. The new FLOSS users need support. > Who will put on their business card "Specializing in FLOSS Implementation > and Support Services"? > > And another thought... > From the articles, my guess is that their savings comes primarily from > dumping Microsoft Office in favor of OpenOffice.org. But OpenOffice.org has > fallen out of favor a little bit due to Oracle's influence. The managers > and officers in government offices aren't likely to know anything about > this, or even care, but we do. > > My concern is that now Oracle will basically try to take over where > Microsoft left off by locking consumers (government offices included) into > some kind of services, modules, and support plan that they can't get from > the Open Source world. > > In a few years will we be fighting Oracle the same way we've fought > Microsoft in the past? > > I can now see why RMS is a *lifelong activist*... it just never ends. > > I'm curious what everyone thinks. Does it matter to you? Is it a problem? > > Has anyone heard of the related term "Open Core"? > What is open core licensing (and what isn’t) > UPDATED<http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/10/20/what-is-open-core-licensing-and-what-isnt/>- > 451 CAOS Theory > ( > http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/10/20/what-is-open-core-licensing-and-what-isnt/ > ) > > -- > > Ghodmode > http://www.ghodmode.com/blog > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 > > MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification > http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
