On 12/10/06, Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan@yahoo.com 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.
International clients, yes. But when it comes to local clients, the local clients still believe that if something is free it is obviously not that good. Also, the situation with techies does not improve that greatly in the industry as well. There was little or no exposure to Linux in academia. In the industry there is some exposure to Linux due to some reason or the other, but little or no awareness of FOSS/GPL etc. A guy in my office was shocked when I sent him the source code for lilo. "Where the hell do you get these from man" was his question. I've even had a former colleague (a senior DBA) say to me, "you don't get quality stuff for free now, do you".
People working in the industry also have a hectic schedule, sometimes working 7 days a week. So, it is
Very true. Staying at office more than 8 hours is equated to dedicated. Project plans are drawn up such that we have to spend the nights and weekends at office as well.
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