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Harald WelteHarald WeltePosted Aug 2, 2007 3:35 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: A turning point for open gadgets?
For people interested in what's happening at OpenMoko, Harald Welte's occasional account is fascinating, if not exactly definitive: http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/. The short story is that it's very, very hard to start up anything in Taiwan, without (I assume) direct government / military / mafia backing. (Taiwan is routinely rated among the most corrupt places in the world.)
Here's hoping Harald gets his health back soon.
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Harald Welte Posted Aug 2, 2007 11:22 UTC (Thu) by jhs (guest, #12429) [Link] Please see the World Bank Institute's Worldwide Governance Indicators (and its Wikipedia article). Among the world's nations, Taiwan ranks near or above the 75th percentile for regulatory quality, rule of law, and corruption. This is well above the regional averages in east Asia. Control of corruption is behind only Singapore and Hong Kong, ahead of South Korea and way ahead of China. I myself these numbers, as they are an attempt to empirically rank nations in a fair way. Also, the scores for Thailand (where I live and run a consulting company) and its region jibe with my personal experience.
Harald Welte Posted Aug 2, 2007 15:57 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] The short story is that it's very, very hard to start up anything in Taiwan, without (I assume) direct government / military / mafia backing. What specifically in his blog leads you to say that?
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