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MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org

by Khairil Yusof — Mar 19, 2008 03:56 PM

Putrajaya, 19th March 2008 - The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), today officially adopts a policy to migrate to the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite. This is in line with the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Master Plan, which calls for government agencies to reduce costs, increase freedom of choice and interoperability.

The Star Online: Sun dangles carrot at OSS developers

by Khairil Yusof — Feb 06, 2008 11:19 PM

KUALA LUMPUR: In a bid to encourage more development of open-source software, network computing infrastructure vendor Sun Microsystems has kicked off a rewards programme for developers of such programs.

Linux Foundation 2007 Linux Desktop/Client Survey

by Khairil Yusof — Oct 23, 2007 03:08 PM

2007 Linux Desktop/Client Survey

ZDNet Asia: Malaysia formally embraces open doc format

by Khairil Yusof — Aug 15, 2007 09:34 AM

The Malaysian government announced plans to adopt open standards and the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.

Tidak kepada OOXML sebagai standard ISO

by Khairil Yusof — Jul 07, 2007 07:36 PM

Sokong bantahan "Tidak kepada OOXML sebagai standard ISO"

"NO" to OOXML as an ISO Standard

by Khairil Yusof — Jul 07, 2007 07:36 PM

Sign the petition to say "NO" to OOXML as an ISO Standard

MyOSS Meetup July 2006

by aizatto — Jul 07, 2007 04:15 PM

I would like to thank Jaya Kumar (http://www.intworks.biz) for his wonderful "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) presentation at the MyOSS Meetup July 2006. Similarly I would like to thank the audience for attending the meetup.

Malaysian NGOs Launch FTA Campaign Website

by Khairil Yusof — Jul 07, 2007 04:12 PM

On March 8, Malaysia and US officially launched a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) and negotiations on the agreement will be intense in the months ahead as the US is pressing to complete the pact by the end of the year, to take advantage of the US President’s ‘fast track authority’ that ends in mid-2007.