[Reader-list] Richard Stallman in Calcutta

[Yogesh Girdhar]

Yes
those genetically modified high-yeielding seeds from US are also far
more accessible and easy to grow. But the problem is .. seeds from the
crop you get are not fertile. Does that mean all the farmers in india
should start usign those seeds?

-yogi


On 8/16/06, Jassim Ali <jassim.ali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Completely agree here with Kiran,
> and a possible reason for the low activity levels in open source could be
> that talent prefers the security and comfort of a cushy job in a tech firm
> than percieved software activism .....
> and come to think of it...whatever be the reason pirated windows is far more
> accessible and easier to pickup than opensource ;-)
>
> jassim
>
>
>
> On 8/16/06, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
>  On 14-Aug-06, at 5:15 PM, Yogi wrote:
>
> > I am really surprised by the fact that despite all this noise about
> > India and its large number of programmers; open source movement in
> > india is non-existant. This is a sign that all these programmer are
> > nothing more than coding monkeys.. who do not understand anything more
> > than whats immediately before their eyes.
>
> Isn't that a gross generalisation? Shouldn't you instead be examining
> the causes for this apparent non-existence, or, blasphemous as this
> may sound, whether open source in its current form has any relevance
> for India at all?
>
> --
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://jace.seacrow.com/
>
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