On 2/18/07, saurabh daptardar saurabh.daptardar@gmail.com wrote:
To me it looks like the open source community in India is moving on the lines of Indian IT industry.There is more hype than substance . Despite employee strengths touching 80000 in some big sofware giants, no Indian company is ready to look beyond outsourcing . They are not ready to come up
There's a cool article in the Times of India today titled 'A Myth called the Indian Programmer'. That article, in many ways gives you a reason why the 80,000 really won't get you anywhere with respect to innovation and technical expertise.
The FOSS community in India doesn't seem to be very big. And even among them, very few actually contribute to anything other than mailing lists.
with their own solutions -- be it products or services .Their world is centered about offering sevices ( an euphemism for labour ) to their clients . Indian software giants claim to have clients from the fortune
Most of the service providers (TCS, Infy, etc) do have their own products. They're not visible to us because they're mainly enterprise systems. Of course, these are not high tech solutions. They can't afford them for obvious reasons (lack of skilled 'labour').
Let us ensure that the same thing does not happen to the believers of open source. It is always easy to believe in a philosophy but what is more important that you implement it.
The believers are doing something about it in their own ways. Again, much of it may not be visible unless you decide to look.
Regards,