Thai Open Source Initiative Uses… .NET?

From the The Nation:

Soon, a factory will lead the push for development of open-source code software for Thai industries, locally.

The Association of Thai Software Industry (ATSI), the Industrial Promotion Department, the Software Industry Promotion Agency (Sipa), Microsoft (Thailand), Rangsit University and 20 local software companies have joined hands to set up the country’s first software factory.

ATSI president Somkiat Ungaree said the software factory is expected to open in the next two months. It will be housed at Rangsit University. The factory will receive Bt3 million in funding from the Industrial Promotion Department and Bt2 million from Sipa.

The factory’s first project will be developing a prototype of small-size manufacturing resource planning (MRP) software used in small and medium manufacturing plants.

Excellent! Home-grown, open source software so small Thai manufacturing plants won’t have to shell out big-bucks and be locked into proprietary software. GREAT IDEA!

But wait…

He said 100 programmers from the 20 local software companies, would be trained in Microsoft’s .Net platform at the factory. They will then develop open-source code software two days a week at the factory.

Huh? They are developing it in .NET! OK–so application will be open source and the application will be free… you are just locked into an expensive, closed-source, insecure PLATFORM.

I don’t know who dreams this stuff up…

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Published:
06.12.08 / 9am
Category:
Free & Open Source Software, Thailand