Nnenna, I would be for one, be interested to know what position the OSS stakeholders presented at the consultative forum... , and as you raised the issue of MYSQL, what became of it..? Clearly, from most blogs am seeing, it's mostly the OSS community who are raising 'hue and cry' over this acquisition that threatens the very basic tenets on which this platform was built, and none of the 'seemingly' reassuring overtures by Oracle over the future of MYSQL seems to assuage anyone, me included.. Pse update.. Harry -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Nnenna Nwakanma Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:54 PM To: harry@comtelsys.co.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] The end of Open Source as we Know it?National Position or National Opinion Hi people
Open Source Software (OSS) has a long life and is here to stay. OSS actually scares Proprietary Software such that the latter wants to kill the former at the earliest possible opportunity. I agree that the OSS community is larger than MySQL.
Certainly. Now we have the very notion open permeating well beyond software and licenses. And infact, I predict that the biggest growth in OSS will be in
developing countries, hoping that Kenya will among others, provide the next generation of leaders in the use of ICTs and the Internet. Why not?
Evans Ikua <ikua@lpakenya.org> wrote:
Not that there would be a "Kenyan Position"
I am not sure what a Kenya position will influence in the current business plan of Oracle. I know that governments who wanted to be informed towards an opinion did so BEFORE the acquisition. The US Department of Commerce Consulted. I do remember being consulted alongside other Open Source Initiative board members. An open meeting was actually held in Washington in which all 'interested stakeholders were invited'. Basically, we did raise the MySQL issue. The EU Commission has a Directorate of Informatics. They also consulted OSS stakeholders. My point is simple. Let us consult first, have informed opinions and probably effect changes before they are made. Best regards -- Nnenna Nwakanma Director, nnenna.org Consultants on Information, Communications, Technology and Events for Development (RCCM - CI-ABJ-2008-A-3.768) Tel: +225 225 271 44 Fax: +225 224 264 71 Cel: +225 07 416 820 nnenna@nnenna.org http://www.nnenna.org http://nnennaorg.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: harry@comtelsys.co.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/harry%40comtelsys.co.ke