Fact 12: Anthony Yong earns RM5,000 a month at M3Tech

Anthony Yong has been kind enough to divulge his contract with M3Tech on his website at antyong.net:


Now we know why the last licensing deal at Malsingmaps did not go through. It was meant to benefit the Malsingmaps community but Anthony Yong prevented it from happening by vetoing the decision of the whole community which supported the deal. Why? Is it because if only one person was to benefit from this endeavour monetarily it would make it less complicated to disburse the money? Does Anthony Yong think it is enough that the community gets the free maps while ONLY HE gets paid RM5,000 a month just to attend one meeting a week plus the dividends from the profit of that company? It stinks to high heaven when everyone poured their blood and sweat to make the maps better. It is similar to the high bonuses and golden parachutes that CEOs of conglomerates receive while ordinary mappers and trackers enjoy their free one-meal-a-day maps. Its the same capitalism philosophy that brought down the world economy to its knees today.

ps What about other mappers at Malfreemaps? Are they making money over there too?

Fact 11: Malsingmaps and Malfreemaps could coexist if...

Malsingmaps and Malfreemaps could coexist if the foundation of Malfreemaps were not based on half truths, deceptions, outright lies and hooligans creating a lot of trouble in Malsingmaps. All these things lead to what Malfreemaps is today, no matter how good their maps are. Malsingmaps community cannot exist in peace because of Malfreemaps' antics.

The community of Malsingmaps have been quiet for 7 months because they wanted to respect Malfreemaps' right to coexist and hopefully provide a healthy competition. But competition has to be healthy and not dirty. Otherwise new members will be misled while creating animosity between old members.

Gangsters and mafias employ the same deceptive tactics. They try to wash their sins by providing charity to their church/mosque/sinagogue/temple. But the priests/imams/rabbis would not accept charities from ill-gotten gains. Nor should we accept the maps provided by Malfreemaps as they were achieved by ill-gotten means of half-truths, deception, outright lies and the encouragement of hooliganism amongst their deciples.

We will be quiet no more. We will be heard and we will spread the truth. So help us God.

Fact 10: The Admins at Malfreemaps encourage mat rempits by not restraining them

This is true. See:

http://www.malfreemaps.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1785&start=0

This kind of behaviour is not tolerated in Malsingmaps because the Admins there maintain peace and order.

Do not support Malfreemaps because they hire mat rempits like fauzee and sharkteef to do their bidding. Mat rempits are hooligans.

Note: In the above thread, fauzee wanted to post about the alleged copying of Malfreemaps by Malsingmaps in the latter's forum but his ID was blocked by the admins. Can someone PM fauzee these links:

Spin 2: Mappers own the maps
Spin 5: Malsingmaps reversed engineered KL, PRK, NPM and EPM
Theory 2: Moles in Masmap?

Thank you.

Fact 9: Using an unauthorized Garmin map will void your Garmin device warranty

This email just in: Now that Malsingmaps uses the Garmin Native Compiler to make their maps, loading Malfreemaps will void your GPS device warranty.

Rumour has it that M3Tech, the company that employs Anthony Yong, is in talks with Malsingmaps to preload their GPS devices with Malsingmaps and NOT Malfreemaps.

Fact 8: Anthony Yong is a shareholder of M3Tech

This is Anthony Yong's declaration in his own forum, malfreemaps.com:

"4. I am also a shareholder of m3tech, which is a MESDAQ-listed PLC"

Fact 7: Sequence of Events that lead to the breakup of Malsingmaps into Malfreemaps

January 2008 - Anthony Yong offered by M3Tech to work as a consultant

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.

Do you have more information on this timeline? Please send an email to mfm.spin@gmail.com

Fact 6: There are more hooligans in Malfreemaps than Malsingmaps

A hooligan is a bully; a cruel and brutal fellow.

Recently, a Harvard Business School assistant professor who had access to customer receipts from dozens of adult websites found something titillating: The more conservative and religious a state is, the more likely its residents are to buy Web porn. See Red-state buy the most online porn.

If you didn't know, red-states mainly consists of rednecks who votes for the Republican party, led by President George W. Bush - the guy who brought the world into the worst global depression since the great depression of the thirties. Rednecks are an uneducated, unsophisticated, ignorant, and prejudicial residents of the rural Southern US. They are hooligans who likes to create havoc.

Recently also, a user by the name of waypoint put up a tongue-in-cheek website to evaluate the number of "rednecks" in both mapping community. It appears that there are more hooligans in Malfreemaps than Malsingmaps judging by the number of people who want Malsingmaps to be either burnt, shot, hanged, drowned, exploded (like Altantuya), beheaded and poisoned. This is a fact.

Don't be associated with hooligans. Stop supporting Malfreemaps.

Fact 5: The future of mapping is with the Garmin Native Compiler

Garmin has officially announced Malsingmaps as the map supplier for Malaysia and Singapore. Currently Malfreemaps is compiling with an illegal Garmin compiler called cgpsmapper. As far I know, Garmin has never approved of this cgpsmapper compiler and thus the activities at Malfreemaps are at best illegal: Producing maps in a proprietary Garmin format.

I have been led to understand that the cgpsmapper compiler yields:
1. Large compiled map size
2. Slow recalculations on wrong turns
3. Possibility of ruining your GPS device with the illegal maps, thus voiding your warranty

Thus I strongly believe that the future of Malfreemaps is uncertain. I hope contributors of Malfreemaps will realize that their efforts will meet a dead-end if they continue with the illegal Garmin map format compiled by cgpsmapper.

The future of mapping is in the native Garmin format which is with Malsingmaps who can produce compiled Garmin maps using Garmin native compilers.

Fact 4: Anthony is a hypocrite

Early in dark September 2008, Anthony wrote in his farewell post to Valued Contributors (normal Malsingmaps members cannot access this forum section so I have captured the screen as proof below):

"2. Currently, our community faces one uncertainty - whether mappers will keep sharing their maps forever. My favourite example is, "What if Antyong had sold his maps instead of passing to Sunn?". To ensure continuity, we need a community structure where maps are updated by a team of mappers with senior mappers having access to all maps. Therefore if any individual leaves, the community soldiers on. Even in the unfortunate event that we are betrayed by one of our own e.g. stealing our map source, the community can still progress."

Duh! What did Anthony do when he left Malsingmaps? Exactly what he preached NOT to do! This is a fact: Anthony Yong is a hypocrite. Princeton defines a hypocrite as a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his motives.

He took away the KL, PRK, NPM and EPM map tiles to Malfreemaps and prevented Malsingmaps further edits on these maps. I hope Malsingmaps has the guts to ignore his antics for the sake of the community. We have been deprived of a good full and updated map of Malaysia & Singapore for the past 7 months because of this hypocrite that is Anthony Yong.

Fact 3: Stopping the spin at Malfreemaps

Princeton defines spin as making up a story. Translated as putar belit in Bahasa Malaysia. In other words, a lot of stories told by Anthony Yong of Malfreemaps has been twisted away from actual fact. http://stopthespinmfm.blogspot.com/ aims to correct these spins with facts.

Watch out for a timeline of events that went on last year, the year of the rat, influencing the split of Malsingmaps to Malfreemaps. Events will unfold on how greed swayed a man's principle and caused good friends to become enemies.

Fact 2: Malsingmaps mappers have never been given an all expense paid trip to Budapest.

This is true.

To see the one who did, see Fact 1.

Theory 4: Malfreemaps donations goes to a Hosting Fund to maintain their server

Those members who donated money to Malfreemaps are actually buying "shares" for Malfreemaps Incorporated. They will get their dividend when money is obtained from Licensing. This is a theory and not a fact.

This is a fact: When members were requested to donate to the Malfreemaps Hosting Fund, Anthony Yong posted on www.antyong.com (which has been conveniently taken off-line) that they would stop collection when they get enough money for 2 years hosting.

There are now more than RM10,000 in the account of Yong Chee Hoo alias Anthony Yong. Can you trust him with your money?

This is another fact: Malsingmaps, to date, has never asked her members for money.

Fact 1: Anthony Yong works for m3tech and went to an all expense trip to Budapest

This is Anthony Yong enjoying Budapest:

This trip was sponsored by m3tech.com as Anthony works there as a consultant. He wrote in his blog here and here that his main job at m3tech was to get the map data for this company. That is what he is doing now under malfreemaps.com.