Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers

Viceice writes "Hot on the heels of recently passed legislation further restricting Freedom of Assembly, the National Front-led Malaysian Government is now working to make the registration of all tech workers mandatory, making it an offence punishable by a stiff fine and jail for anyone to plan, deploy, service and maintain any computing system without a license. A leaked draft of the legislation has ignited a backlash among the IT community, which fear the law, when passed, will be devastating to the tech industry in Malaysia."

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[AK Marc]

Sounds like a bitter IT professional who was incapable of getting his MCSE, despite years of trying. I got my company to buy some Sybex study guides, read them, and within a month of getting my first MCSE study material, I was MCSE. Same with CCNA/CCDA, but then, I actually worked for a living, so I knew almost all of it before even starting studying. Perhaps that's why you needed to be a programmer, you couldn't handle the technical side.