dear Arun,
It is really nice to hear the following from u.
Archan Paul
Lateral Linux Labs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ 61737056
> 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.
>
> Speaking for myself, I did the above work as a part of Intel on the
> IA-64 project as a paid job. So I can't exactly claim that I did my
> work for free - in the altruistic sense, but "free" in the GNU sense
> (it's ok to take money, as long as the source is free).
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