Open Source software, anyone?

Just read it on The Sun Daily, it got this piece with the title:

Software piracy in M'sia worrisome, says software analyst

Hello! Don't you know there are practically at least one open source software for every single possible application? From OS to web browser, to wordprocessor, to office suite, to DTP, not to mention games, all are free for download and distribute, provided the distributor only distribute the verbatim copy of the software, along with the open source license. So why is the BS fussing about only 228 are recognised out of 2000 companies that had joined the government's Genuine Corporate Award?

We need to have a free software awareness campaign in Malaysia. Especially the fact that the open source softwares are actually less buggy than Microsoft products.

http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.libreoffice.org/
http://www.redhat.com/

There are so many out there, just google for them.

在英文的太陽報看到，軟體專家說在馬來西亞的軟體盜版情況相當嚴重，加入政府的使用授權軟體公司認證的兩千家公司中只有兩百廿八金家合格。這數字是怎麽得出來的？

這些人是那裏不對勁，如此沒見識？現在互聯網上那麽多免費軟體供下載，各種用途的，連操作系統都有，誰還要去 盜版？那專家真的有問題。馬來西亞人該向所有人介紹甚麽叫免費軟體。