India is kind of somewhat a sad situation. Compared to the amount of educated people, I think India is fairly low on the list compared to what it could be. Culturally it should be fairly easy, because language barriers should not be there. If you are educated in India, you know English even if it is not your first language. So India actually should have an easier time being involved in some of the discussions. Don't get me wrong, there are developers, but just not as many as I would expect. And I don't know quite why.
There is a fair amount of really enthusiastic local LUGs and I get to hear about them. But, at the same time I don't know India, you know much better. My gut feeling is that a lot of the actual professional developers in India see software development as a job and not as a hobby. That's the kind of picture I've gotten, I don't know if it's true. If you see it [software development] as a job and not as a hobby the whole open source thing is not as natural anymore.
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൨൦൧൧, നവംബര് ൩ ൫:൪൧ രാവിലെ നു, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhartiya@gmail.com എഴുതി:
My gut feeling is that a lot of the actual professional developers in India see software development as a job and not as a hobby. That's the kind of picture I've gotten, I don't know if it's true.
Absolutely spot-on, this observation. The man is so perceptive. :-)
Binand
the social condition in India is very different.
On 03/11/2011, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhartiya@gmail.com wrote:
India is kind of somewhat a sad situation. Compared to the amount of educated people, I think India is fairly low on the list compared to what it could be. Culturally it should be fairly easy, because language barriers should not be there. If you are educated in India, you know English even if it is not your first language. So India actually should have an easier time being involved in some of the discussions. Don't get me wrong, there are developers, but just not as many as I would expect. And I don't know quite why.
There is a fair amount of really enthusiastic local LUGs and I get to hear about them. But, at the same time I don't know India, you know much better. My gut feeling is that a lot of the actual professional developers in India see software development as a job and not as a hobby. That's the kind of picture I've gotten, I don't know if it's true. If you see it [software development] as a job and not as a hobby the whole open source thing is not as natural anymore.
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On Nov 3, 2011 10:08 AM, "Akshay Mishra" akshaymishra@gmail.com wrote:
the social condition in India is very different.
The issue is not about social conditions at all. People choose software development as a lucrative career, and not just because they like it. Many of the developers come from non-engineering backgrounds, leave aside computer science/engg. and therefore you don't see many kernel contributors.
Hardly anybody understands the Free Software / Open Source philosophy. In fact, many still believe in the ancient Microsoft FUD of open source being more insecure as anybody can see and change it.
Apart from philosophy and knowledge related hurdles, another one is that as FLOSS is not prevalent, freeloaders have a license to steal code without the fear of being discovered. However, that is a strawman argument.
Ultimately, as long as developers continue to evaluate opportunities purely on the basis of how much salary / development fees they will earn, they will not program just for the joy of it. This has to be expected. We aren't called a nation of traders for nothing.
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