On 11-Dec-06, at 9:13 AM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
- Lot of companies in the Indian IT industry use
FOSS. They service international clients from US, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Because they sign an NDA, they are not allowed to _name_ the clients. But, yes, there is tremendous contribution to FOSS, from an *industry* perspective.
Are they contributing code back in? Is the code good enough to actually go into version control? Or are they mere users?
the vast majority of indian companies that talk of being FOSS companies are mere endusers of foss. Their download pages are permanently 'under construction'. There is no difference between writing proprietary software with foss tools and with proprietary tools.