Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> "Open source is a relatively new concept in India," says Hariharan of
> the Open Source Foundation /me glares at Venky
Let's put it this way. It has been around more or less for ever.
But the kind of environment that helped the open source / hacker community to
grow stateside (oh, like internet access, really cheap PCs as a percentage of
your income.. even someone who is nominally poor has a car, if only a beat up
old chevy, etc etc) doesn’t exist in India.
Nor are any of the Indian colleges a patch on even Iowa State (or whatever) in
terms of the learning environment.
Then, there's this consistent pressure to earn, earn, earn .. join Cognizant,
get married, have kids, settle down into a comfortable middle class lifestyle -
that kind of gets in the way too.
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.
srs
