Well, we are not really that poor. We only poor in terms of knowledge, when compared to IT force work in countries like US and EU.
About three years ago, I purchased an Oreilly's "SSH: The Secure Shell The Definitive Guide" by Daniel J. Barrett, Ph. D., Richard E. Silverman. It costs me 132 Ringgit. Well this is about 3 times more expensive the US version. We all know that too well, the ringgit pegging thing. IT guys need to pay 1/3 of the price to gain the same knowledge, whereas people like us who is already earning lower than our counterpart in US, got to pay 3 times higher. Make sense?
So you think what quality of life do i have?
It is sad thing we IT people (in fact all knowledge workers) who need constant upgrade got to pay the price for policies like this. People (friends from India) told me books are priced reasonably there. Books from China?? I know well, they are not expensive either. What difficulty is there for the authority to provide some concessions to publishers? Government has been subsidied large amout of petrol and diesel years, what so difficulty about subsiding people technical books that we knowledge workers much needed? Fair??
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