On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[email protected]> wrote: > India is kind of somewhat a sad situation. Compared to the amount of > educated people, I think India is fairly low on the list compared to what it > could be. Culturally it should be fairly easy, because language barriers > should not be there. If you are educated in India, you know English even if > it is not your first language. So India actually should have an easier time > being involved in some of the discussions. Don't get me wrong, there are > developers, but just not as many as I would expect. And I don't know quite > why. > > There is a fair amount of really enthusiastic local LUGs and I get to hear > about them. But, at the same time I don't know India, you know much better. > My gut feeling is that a lot of the actual professional developers in India > see software development as a job and not as a hobby. That's the kind of > picture I've gotten, I don't know if it's true. If you see it [software > development] as a job and not as a hobby the whole open source thing is not > as natural anymore. > > http://www.muktware.com/news/2855
Linus has nailed it. regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
