[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“If Microsoft chairman Bill Gates thought he had worries about
open source stealing market share from Microsoft in the Australian
public sector, Malaysia has just proved to be a much bigger
problem.“Less than a month after Gates’ high-profile roadshow through
Asia, the Malaysian government has mandated the in-house deployment
of open source software (OSS) in what may well be the biggest
national backlash against proprietary software in the world,
according to a report in Malaysia’s national daily
newspaper…”