the last time someone started 1,000,000 Malaysians wants najib to resign, nothing happens

good for IT people now, being recognize and a board to fight for our rights

pay raise in the horizon!

lol. as long as this bill get 2/3 majority pass, it will be implemented. now is the time to make sure that they don't get that 2/3 sits

why an IT graduate should be worry?.. u just need take the license like engineer do and u probably has better chance to find a job now since not everyone can jump to IT like before.. so after this, like it or not, people can only depend on IT graduate to do IT job..

don't you people familiar with the drill already by now?

Later will come out in the news draft pulled out due to many opposition from rakyat. This shows the G cares for rakyat.

Comes out with another stupid draft/proposal, rinse and repeat Government cares for rakyat a thousand times.

me IT graduate, doing freelance thing, should i worry ?

of course not all it graduates are good, im just saying this new bill not gonna affect IT graduate in a bad way..

it only gonna affect freelancer and company since company can only hired people who has licensed which also gonna cost them more compare to hiring IT literate worker with just SPM

The problem is i have an business in mind... As an entrepreneur....
I do not dare to even think what will happen if this law enforce and all the step require to run a small basic business... aih...

Screw this shit. You can't even think/sketch/build a prototype/discuss/or even email your friend about this new app idea you have if this bill goes live. If you're a developer and you love what you're doing. Then you should be at MOSTI's office on Tuesday to oppose this bill. This is about any political party or any political agenda. It's just that there some really idiot people in the goverment who thinks that they're right about everything.

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Added on December 9, 2011, 2:53 amI'm a college dropout and I took up coding as a hobby and it's now my profession. If I had to go through our tertiary university studies to learn how to code, I'd be coding using .NET or Java right now. Those languages are bloody dead or are dying, we don't teach languages that people will use. I only see couple of students from Uni that actually took their own initiative to learn Rails or jQuery and they are the ones that normally gets hired by startups in other country or they are the ones that starts their own startup and become somebody that actually contributes to Malaysian's GDP.

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I did a Dip in Business Economics in KTAR. Took programming as a hobby to edit HTML/CSS for Friendster profiles and then moved to PHP. Dropped out the second year and never looked back.

My reasons for opposing are this:
1. I am against a law that forces people to only hire a member of a certain body.

2. Let the body exist and certify the IT people that wants to join it, but let the industry determine the value of the body and its members through free trade. If the members are less capable than the non-members, then don't hire them. In this way, if the body's certification and membership are of any use, industry will tend to hire them and not others.

3. Producing software is not like medicine or architecture that is a matter of life and death. Certain industries that require better software people (i.e. airlines, military, parts of wireless communication) already have more rigorous hiring process and another certification will not make a difference to them; they trust in their own hiring people, not a piece of paper. Lay people can also produce software, like writing a book, and there should not be a law to stop them from doing so. Even non-accountants can fill up their own tax forms. Are you looking forward to the day when only accountants can fill up tax forms, painters association members can paint your house, writers association can type your emails etc.?

That is one of the objective

Does anyone know of any other country that has this kind of board?

Anyone caught working as Software Developer, diploma or degree or not, without being licensed by government, will be fined 20k or jailed 6 months.
The key is, the criteria for licensing would be very vague and prone to abuse.
Malaysia is probably the other country to implement this law other than Nigeria (pariah country)

if u are really good in your field,i dont think it will be a problem for u to pass the test.

In IT how do u become good?

If u have IT knowledge from year 2000-2005 and use it everyday and pass every exam for year 2000-2005, are u considered good. This is the main difference between medicine and engineering.

IT such a delicate field that I am very sure many people may have encountered some 'professional' IT people from reputable firms giving really crappy recommendations.

u tak suka, u lawan.

all IT related citizens must rage and vote for opposition!

the "pro" from this bill:-
1). it will weed out the tom,d*** and harry from offering IT services

the "cons":-
1). what charges will they imposed on us to register with the body and for how long will the next renewal registration with the body takes. hope not a hefty sum.