Amish Munshi writes:
But also how much money comes into India, many of the projects of big software companies do develop software in india. Adobe, microsoft, and many more develop software in india. They provide opprtunities to many developers in India. Today india is probably the only country in the world who is making profit in the software industry. There is a down time still in the US and the developed countries where as india is making huge profits by providing cheaper development center for many of these big companies. I actually have never understood this acpect of OSS/FS. How can it help in increasing employment? Flames > /dev/null, but do enligten me. Thanks.
-- Amish K. Munshi In GNU we Trust.
All American companies do "offshore developement" in India. We build the software, they sell it, they make the money. Why not get paid for own work? They make millions and pass on measly thousands to us. All Those who say they employ us are wrong. We can sustain ourselves, though this approach is slightly unrealistic in today,s global economy. Our domestic potential is HUGE. They depend on us, not us on them to a very great extent. However we tend to overlook this "obvious" fact.
Thet reason we are making money is that we have got our basics right. We have a large skilled workforce. It's up to us to make use of it. Remember we are trying to serve a country which denied us technology (remember cryogenic engines and cray supercomputers) under some absolutely sham and superficial reasons. This is one more reason why india should go the "Swatantra" software way.
"Swatantra" software will break these shackles by making computers and software accessible to the common man on the street. However I may hastily add this is just one of the factors under consideration.
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