-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
| Though, that's the old style of open source. I guess if you hire people and pay them to work on open source, release open source, it just might work far better. Curiously similar to the conversation one was having at breakfast :) regarding incidental and voluntary contributions. However, saving myself the task of copy pasting, the section of the Linus interview Jim quotes is perhaps relevant http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/torvalds_on_democracy_and_culture The significant barrier to contributions in FOSS starting from a very early age is the fact that the education system refuses to recognize the concept of doing FOSS work (even GSoC work) as "projects". ~sankarshan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhy+uXQZpNTcrCzMRAoYCAJ0e8BvNcAQYfQ13jwARShUArzYdOQCeMEpG SUjZ2rl0MFx4YWuOvRA77hw= =ekN/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
