24th March 2008 - Anthony Yong initially declines offer from M3Tech to work as a consultant. This polite refusal tactic is usually used by prospective employees so that prospective employers would raise their offer... and it worked too.
14th July 2008 - Anthony Yong pledges to open his map data to prepare for his duty at M3Tech, probably in the hopes of getting other mappers at Malsingmaps to open their data as well. This did not work.
24th July 2008 - Anthony Yong accepts offer from M3Tech. Mentions about making big bucks. Money is indeed the root of all evil.
7th September 2008 - Anthony Yong breaks from Malsingmaps to form Malfreemaps. See image at the bottom of Fact number 6. This is the darkest September for the mapping community of Malaysia, Brunei & Singapore.
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