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Thai Open Source Initiative Uses… .NET?
Posted on June 12th, 2008 5 commentsFrom 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…
5 responses to “Thai Open Source Initiative Uses… .NET?”
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.NET can be run on Mono. Moreover, I’ve seen many professional works that use .NET with MySQL.
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.Net is a platform like any other – only you get to re-write your code every two years when the apis break from underneath you. Not even the win32 platform has this frequency of backwards incompatible changes. (Actually win32 been pretty stable which is much of the impetus for .Net.) Microsoft has invented the ultimate DLL hell where now you have “mission critical” apps dependent upon DIFFERENT versions of .Net that can’t even co-exist.
So, for a VERY small investment, Microsoft just got a lot of other people to fund the training of a new set of graduates in their proprietary technologies which, despite the efforts of Mono, they will not be able to reuse outside of that environment. The CLR is pretty cool academically. .Net is evil.
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WTF? Microsoft funded software sweat shop.. ugh sorry “factory”. The last thing this country needs is more .NET drones. I’ve got an idea how about putting that money into a fund to invest in Thai startups with bright ideas. Invest in people, foster innovation, and individual thought. Its people with bright minds that build great software. Build a community not a friggin silo. And…. PLEASE don’t try and tell us Microsoft is backing open source.
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Makes perfect sense. Microsoft pwns everything in Thailand, why not this project also.
If some truly open platform needs to succeed here (at Govt. level), then they need to be able to shell out loads of “tea” money and other contributions. Try getting an open platform “vendor” to do that!
Each day I live in constant fear knowing the fact that my bank 100% runs on M$ thingies.
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Although I’ve invested in Microsoft tools, technology and training – I’m definitely not a Microsoft Zealot. That said – security in software development is much less about technology as it is the software development process – which can be good or bad irrespective of the platform.
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wiennat June 12th, 2008 at 09:39