Lucky Tan: AIM-PAP Saga : The Explanation that explains nothing!

[Confuseous]

AIM-PAP Saga : The Explanation that explains nothing!

The main issue with the sale of town council management software to a PAP owned company with a clause that gives the PAP company the right to terminate use of the software if an opposition takes over the town council is that of conflict of interest. It is equivalent to the Democratic Party selling the US Social Security computer software it a company it owns then giving the company the right to stop the Republicans from using it when it recapture the presidency in elections. The AIM deal gives enormous power to the PAP to stop the opposition from running the town councils effectively when they are chosen by the constituents to be their representatives in parliament. Therein lies the conflict of interest. The rights of the people are not protected and they are put at risk.

Why Dr Teo's technical and procedural "explanations" are flawed and nonsensical....

- http://singaporemind.blogspot.sg/2013/01/aim-pap-saga-explanation-that-explains.html

 

[kongsimi]

can lah PAP more trustworthy than oppositions like SDP...

 

[palden]

Gone are the good old days. This thing will blow over. Nothing will happen. Sit tight Teo, don't worry too much. They don't have much people left so will not do anything to you.

 

[hsienloong]

Second-Hand Software Sales Set to Soar on Oracle Ruling.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...tware-sales-set-to-soar-on-oracle-ruling.html

They quote a price, typically 30 percent to 70 percent of the original cost.
The intermediaries usually take a cut of about 30 percent of the deal.

Town Council Software License still got a resale market value of 30 to 70%
of the original price.

 

[hsienloong]

Possible copyright infringement.

The original licensee must not carry on using the software after the sale, otherwise it will be infringing copyright. It must make its own copy
of the software “unusable”. Technical protection measures may provide some help, but in practice it will be hard for Oracle and other software houses
to be absolutely sure whether the original customer is still using in parallel with the acquirer of the second-hand copy.

http://m.mayerbrown.com/files/Publi...pdate_aug12_software-licence-transferable.pdf