The Malaysian gov't is happy to use OSS software if it saves them money. But any IT work done under a gov't of Malaysia contract cannot be released to anyone as it is protected by the Official Secrets Act (OSA).
Even if this OSA restriction didn't exist, the local IT vendors in Malaysia would never want the code they wrote to be under any form of scrutiny as their projects are usually failures that still result in big payouts for them.
Don't count on seeing a single contribution from Malaysia to the opensource community in the next couple of years.
Malaysia's monopoly phone company Telekom Malaysia and their subsiduary (TMnet) have deployed about 150,000 DSL lines recently. The quality of service is poor with complete outages of international links for as long as 10 days. Partial outages are frequent and can last a couple of days. Malaysia with 12 x 155Mbps international circuits has some serious congestion to international sites. The price of their service is however a decent value for broadband deprived Malaysians.
From: http://isp.tm.net.my/streamyx/newPromoPackages.sht ml
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The Malaysian gov't is happy to use OSS software if it saves them money. But any IT work done under a gov't of Malaysia contract cannot be released to anyone as it is protected by the Official Secrets Act (OSA).
Even if this OSA restriction didn't exist, the local IT vendors in Malaysia would never want the code they wrote to be under any form of scrutiny as their projects are usually failures that still result in big payouts for them.
Don't count on seeing a single contribution from Malaysia to the opensource community in the next couple of years.
Malaysia's monopoly phone company Telekom Malaysia and their subsiduary (TMnet) have deployed about 150,000 DSL lines recently. The quality of service is poor with complete outages of international links for as long as 10 days. Partial outages are frequent and can last a couple of days. Malaysia with 12 x 155Mbps international circuits has some serious congestion to international sites. The price of their service is however a decent value for broadband deprived Malaysians.
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From: http://isp.tm.net.my/streamyx/newPromoPackages.sh
384kbps/128 (60 hours, no modem) - 11.58 USD/month
512/128 (unlimited, leased modem) - $26.05 USD/month
1Mbps/384 (fixed ip) - $110 USD/month
1.5 Mbps/1.5Mbps (fixed ip) - $162 USD/month