@Watchman<div><br></div><div>The opinion I express on Skunkworks are solely personal opinion and have nothing to do with where I work and what I do there. </div><div><br></div><div>My point is that we spend so much time yapping about multinationals taking our share of the pie when clearly we lack capacity. We should instead see ways of working in tandem with them to learn and sharpen our skills.</div>

<div><br></div><div>So now you guys want to produce your own version of Cisco Routers, IBM servers and Google Apps?<br><div><br clear="all"><div>Regards</div>Jared Koyier<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2011 14:07, Watchman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:skunkingrahim@gmail.com">skunkingrahim@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

@Jared.<br><br>way to go with being supportive of the local energy. <br><br>is this you? btw.<br><div>
    
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<div>Am hesitant to comment on Aki-post coz they wind n wind n whine....anyway..there is nothing wrong with proven companies with proven solution working with the government to create efficiency. <br><br></div><div>If google/cisco/ibm are creating a solution that is going to better the lives of 40Million kenyans then to hell with 12 creative developers.</div>




<div><br></div><div>The same noise Aki is making was the same noise companies like Kirinyaga construction and the other local companies used to make when road contracts were being dished to Chinese firms. Thika road speaks for itself and now majority of these companies are actually collaborating with the chinese for technology n knowledge transfer.</div>




<div><br></div><div>I liked the mantra Domodomo...can someone revive it or we have to wait till 2011</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div>Regards</div>Jared Koyier<div><div></div><div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2011 13:45, [ Brainiac ] <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com" target="_blank">arebacollins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




Thats where you get it all wrong my brother, You do not stop breathing just because you can contract flu. Dont Get me wrong, there is those of us busy talking about it in this list, then there is those busy working with the tools in their hands to offer solutions. <br>





<br>What i dont get (and dont bother, ill never understand the rationale) is the need to Kenyanize everything yet the tools we would use are not Kenyan. Do you notice the domain extension for your email address dude? <br>





<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:37 PM, aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@gmail.com" target="_blank">aki275@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div>

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<div>@Brainiac, :-)</div>
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<div>I know you are not one of the copy/pasters, so what would have been your answer if you were given the chance to build such a project?. </div>
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<div>Whether a local product or service exists or not, that should have been established by the awarding authority of experts, not me. However, we need the answers so as to understand why local sectors were left out of the process, if at all they were.</div>







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<div><b><u>In the meantime, 10 years from now and possibly when the US markets have gone to the lowest points and Google thinks of selling out, what happens to the Kenyan online data on Google servers?  Does the buyer in say China inherit it and charge Kenyans a small amount to access it?! What are the legal obligations and consequences on such matters? </u></b></div>







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<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">@aki, <br><br>You are quite like my brothers down here at the coast whose rallying cries are haki yetu, kunyanyaswa, mabepari and mabwenyenye.. All hot air really. So my question: Is there any product you have or know of that could serve these needs overtaken by foreigners that has been unjustly denied the opportunity to be deployed? If not then instead of sensational innuendo i suggest you get to work make PCBs, Computers, Their Operating systems, IDEs all in Kenya and then develop truly Kenyan products. <br>






<br>Dont keep us waiting for pipedreams just because its Kenyan.<br><br>
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