Understood, hmm now that you raise this point it does seem like a difficult question to have an answer to. Ok thanks!
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Harish Mallipeddi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who is an open source developer in the first place? If it just requires > someone to author 100 lines of GPL'd code in order to call himself an open > source developer, then count me in. If it requires someone to have gotten > their patch accepted into the Linux kernel source tree, then count me out! > > Seriously I find it funny when I see job ads which just say "we are seeking > exceptional open source developers" when what they actually were trying to > say is "our company has been doing .NET all this while, and recently our > mgmt has decided to cut costs by switching to opensource software and we > have no clue whom to hire". > > You should maybe pick the 100 most high-profile opensource projects and see > how many significant contributions they've received from Singapore devs. > Answering this question is not as easy as coming up with no of people in > Singapore who have a Linux certification. > > Cheers, > Harish > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:38 PM, chris ismael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hi, does anyone know the figure for the number of open source developers >> here in SG? Thanks! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Slugnet mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >> http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >> >> > > > -- > Harish Mallipeddi > http://blog.poundbang.in >
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