Thai IT Minister Slams Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @07:09PM from the not-good-enough dept.

patiwat writes "Thailand's newly appointed Information and Communications Technology Minister has slammed open source software as useless and full of bugs: 'With open source, there is no intellectual property. Anyone can use it and all your ideas become public domain. If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated... As a programmer, if I can write good code, why should I give it away? Thailand can do good source code without open source.' This marks a sharp u-turn in policy from that of the previous government."

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mixed up example by kaan · 2006-11-15 19:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated...

He's so right! Open source stuff is teh suck!

Check out Windows XP - it's not open source, it has no bugs, and it has totally progressed for the past five years!
Erm... or not.

Wait a second... no progress, tons of bugs, outdated products... this all sounds very familiar. Are we sure this guy isn't bashing Microsoft products instead of open source?