Interesante artículo [1], he aquí un pequeño extracto:

[1] http://news.ft.com/cms/s/53f0b388-bec1-11da-b10f-0000779e2340.html

""...
While developing countries are happy to use open source, it's harder for
professional programmers to get involved in writing it. Most open source
projects rely heavily on volunteer labour, from students and hobbyists;
even paid open source developers are usually recruited from the ranks of
established volunteers.

In the developing world, graduates with programming skills may have an
extended family network depending on them as the breadwinner - so
spending time debugging open source code for no payment will be
especially hard to justify.

"The ability to become an active contributor to free software is at the
moment limited to fairly wealthy countries and communities," says Ubuntu
founder Mark Shuttleworth.

Given these factors, it is impressive how much the developing world has
contributed to open source. At least the internet-based nature of OSS
development means a remote location is no barrier to participation.
...""

-- 
Alejandro Ríos Peña
Ing. en Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones.
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 Grupo GNU/Linux Universidad del Cauca - GLUC.
 Comunidad Debian-Colombia.

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