[Reader-list] Richard Stallman in Calcutta

[Jassim Ali]

Completely agree here with Kiran,
and a possible reason for the low activity levels in open source could be
that talent prefers the security and comfort of a cushy job in a tech firm
than percieved software activism .....
and come to think of it...whatever be the reason pirated windows is far more
accessible and easier to pickup than opensource ;-)

jassim


On 8/16/06, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On 14-Aug-06, at 5:15 PM, Yogi wrote:
>
> > I am really surprised by the fact that despite all this noise about
> > India and its large number of programmers; open source movement in
> > india is non-existant. This is a sign that all these programmer are
> > nothing more than coding monkeys.. who do not understand anything more
> > than whats immediately before their eyes.
>
> Isn't that a gross generalisation? Shouldn't you instead be examining
> the causes for this apparent non-existence, or, blasphemous as this
> may sound, whether open source in its current form has any relevance
> for India at all?
>
> --
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://jace.seacrow.com/
>
>
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