Cyber Merdeka(azrulhasni@gmail.com)

Who are these people

What did they do

They struggle for our independance

AND STRUGGLE THEY DID!!

Today …

Our independence is again under threat...

Our IT independence that is

Our government's data

… is stored in propreitary file format

… and in propeitary databases

… running on propeitary systems

… whose IP are owned by foreign companies

Who love software patent like Britney loves her poodle

Who can pull the plug on us at any time.. you know, like tomorrow

OR RIGHT NOW!

What are we?

Crazy!!@

We have to fight for our IT independance!!

By using Open Source

So that we are in control

The government says...

We have to be neutral

Neutral??

Neutral my stiking foot!!

We have to be BIAS

… towards our own interest

The Americans ...

… are always protecting their interest

Why don't we?

Open source not owned by anyone.

It's not ours

But...

It's the next best thing

We can modify it and change it …

… heck

… we can publish the code on TV, for all we care

… and that is OK

( As if Malaysian TV is not boring enough already)

What platform

Open source HW (OpenSPARC)

Open source OS (Linux,Solaris, BSD ...)

PHP, Ruby, Phyton

JVM

Scala,PHP, Ruby, Phyton

Doc. mgmt Whatever...Workflow

What can you do?

Blog

Twitt

Chat

Convince

...people around you, especially if they are not in IT

of the importance of IT sovereignity

Malaysians are nobody's PANSY!

I had a meeting with MDEC

50.6% of MSC companies are struggling to look for Java Programmers

… and yet our university grads only know VB

… and VB 6 at that

Cyber Merdeka is not just a call

For hippies

Who hug trees

And burn bras

… if you do wear a bra

Of course

You can burn someone else's bra too

(Sorry I digress)

This call makes ...

BUSINESS SENSE!

So if our forefather give their lives for our independance

We need to give our code

… and our sweat and our time and our attention

… to Open Source

For our independance

MERDEKA!!( Freedom )

Did I sound like William Walace from Braveheart?

:)

Is Mel Gibson in the room?

TQ

(azrulhasni@gmail.com)(ejn3.blogspot.com)

Do want schools to be named after you!

So fight for our Cyber Merdeka!