On Monday 03 January 2005 02:15 pm, you wrote:
3 persons per billion is a very high percentage no?
It's not that bad considering the PC penetration and the broadband cost in India.
what has this got to do with involvement in FOSS? - i know for a fact that one indian contributor to XFCE did a major part of his work on diallup - i have done so on a much lesser scale on sloooow diallup. I was even involved in one project where contribution was by email.
I won't even talk of the literacy rate and per capita income.
this also has nothing to do with the subject. On this list alone i would bet there are 100+ computer literate persons with broadband access - how many of them contribute?
The reasons lie elsewhere. Maybe we should conduct a poll to find why those who dont contribute dont?
maybe fred has better statistics, but a think a total of around 150 - 200 FOSS contributors in a country of our size is demeaning ...
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