[ubuntu-my] First Malaysian OS?

[Abdullah Zainul Abidin]

Always the level headed cikgu... :)
Quite interesting how this thread has developed.

Thanks & regards,
Abdullah Zainul Abidin
On Mar 10, 2011 4:03 PM, "Harisfazillah Jamel" <linuxmalaysia at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> All the issues have highlighted to them and they do follow our
> discussion in OSDC.my mailing list and I believe in this list also.
> They do acknowledge the issues that our friends (me, fazli,
> Sharuzzaman, Redzuan and others) highlight in mailing list like
> OSDC.my and Ubuntu-my and they openly willing to learn from community.
>
> I believe, they problem start with the nature of local OSS community
> that we don't have one single official reference community or
> organisation that they can refer and get advice how they should go
> about it. We really put them in the dark who to refer and what step
> need to be taken. Tiba-tiba aje kita sudah fire mereka.
>
> To be fair, we need to open up and lets them explain. If in our
> opinions they do its wrongly lets us guide and advice them. By doing
> offensive remarks, its will be negative presumptive to us the OSS
> community and we may hinder them to progress in correct way.
>
> OSS licenses need laywer that can understand it correctly and advice
> them and us, how this should work. In Malaysia, we don't have that
> many that can advice us. We need a proven case in Malaysia to get this
> working in protecting the OSS in Malaysia.
>
> Next steps :-
>
> A Inter Distros workshop will be held on 26 March 2011 at
> HackerspaceKL. I have invite them verbally and will do so with email.
>
> Myself in contact with their lawyer to improved the understanding of
> the OSS license and to know what they understand about OSS license.
> Myself not a lawyer and GPL can be understand in many ways.
>
> This is a start, lets we work together as community to guide them.
> This will be benchmark for us how to work with businesses and
> Government agencies
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:42 PM, starconsultancy
> <f.van.der.star at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> As I was you I would not make a great issue out of this!
>>
>> I think this will not  B O O M  Malaysia.
>>
>> To my perspective for (forking, (customized) redistributing))
GPL-software
>> no need to refer
>> to copywriting. But.......maybe I am wrong.
>>
>> Myself I use SQL-Ledger on website and in this case it is obligatory I
>> mention the source
>> and its related website.
>>
>> Actually I see now only positive sides of this. It is moving in Malaysia
and
>> that is important!!
>>
>> So I go to kopi tam and relax.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Frans van der Star
>>
>
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