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. Avatar ltda. Grupo GNU/Linux Universidad del Cauca - GLUC. Comunidad Debian-Colombia.
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