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 If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated...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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The truth by Porchroof · 2006-11-16 01:18 · Score: 0, Troll

Finally, someone who is not afraid to tell the truth about open source.

I've always felt that "open source" was a philosophy that came out of Berkley in the 1960s.

I have a vision of hundreds of unpaid open source programmers chained together and to their desks, sitting in front of computers, producing free software.

Excuse me, did I say free? The distributors of that "free" software, of course, get paid. They know that "free" software will get nowhere unless there is some barter arrangement.

But, then, I'm probably just a fud, idiot, moron, clueless.

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