I read an article somewhere... that it's socialist Western economies which are most likely to produce these types of contributors.
Notice that even in the Linux kernel, a bulk of the original contributors were from Scandinavian countries which, even more than the US, provide for their citizens' needs. So they need not worry about pedestrian concerns like paying their rent or buying food. And Ken Thompson etc. all worked for the big bad AT&T which bankrolled their research. Ditto for Metcalfe the Ethernet inventor and the mouse inventor, except they were with Xerox. And Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. It's quite rare to find Free contributors from poorer countries, I guess because in poorer countries, you need to earn a living. I think Exist / Devzuz is making some significant contributions to ActiveMQ / OpenESB / Maven. That's probably the closest we can get in the Philippines. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Miguel Paraz <[email protected]> wrote: .. > and I'd like them to be Pinoys as well... but as discussed (or > speculated) here time and again, those who have the skill and talent > to contribute to open source have to use their skills to earn a > living. > > Second best would be for Pinoys to be funded by foreign entities to > develop open source... But with the current realignment of world > finance, that's no longer too feasible! -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
