On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:30 +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
> There is no money in creativity in India. If creativity brings in the moolah,
> the artists will come in.
i don't see this as being different from europe and the US. i don't see
many US or european artists (or open source programmers) suffering from
a lack of safety or physiological needs (to use maslow's language [1]),
which is a pretty real risk for an ordinary indian urban professional's
kid (let alone someone not as well off in india) who decides not to get
a "real job".
> India's open source boom will come when the early whiz kids of the
Infotech
> generation retire after fulfilling their Hindu duties and reach the sannyasa
> stage. They will then become productive in contributing to open source.
even when open source in europe and the US was less "professionalised"
than it is now, the FLOSS survey [2] found that people who were married
and/or had children and were _still_ floss developers had a healthy
income and earned their living from their floss work. to use the hindu
terminology, US and european open source developers are either:
- brahmacharis (students), where they participate in open source
development as part of their brahmachari training (learning and
developing new skills is the #1 cited motivation for participation [3]); -
- grihastas ("home-makers"), where they have partners / are married /
have children and participate in open source development but earn a
living from it
- sannyasis ("saints") like richard stallman, who've gone beyond meeting
their lower level maslow needs and are only interested in
self-actualisation.
-rishab
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
2. http://flossproject.org/report/Final4.htm
3. http://flosspols.org/deliverables/D10HTML/FLOSSPOLS-D10-skills%
20survey_interim_report-revision-FINAL.html
