Arun Sharma wrote:
GOOD POINT Arun, Its one thing to be assured of a welfare system as a citizen
of a western country , live an esoteric life style and hack on code. Its not
quite the same to be an insecure immigrant . The next thing you know the INS
will label your effort as taking away a citizens job :-).
Coming to the point, the IPC subsystem I believe was written in part by an
Indian PHD student at Ohio state ?. Now that Linux is exploding in India we
should see some major contributions in this direction.
> If you'd like to see Indian names, try grep'ing for my name in
> patch-2.3.43. I've also seen a couple of other Indian names early
> on.
>
> The real issue is, Indian engineers are driven by money. Not many people
> have the time, energy and resources to contribute. The few who do, go for
> the big money and are not exactly Richard Stallman fans. And yes, Indian
> schools don't offer a 7 year, almost zero cost Masters programs like
> the ones in Finland. You can see a lot of Indian engineers at Sun, SCO,
> HP, SGI and IBM doing kernel development - so it's certainly not a lack
> of talent.
>
>
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