Re: UPDATE: Bangalore diary...

[Radhakrishnan C V <cvr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Frederick Noronha wrote:

[...]
 
: * INDIANS ARE BENEFITTING from Open Source. But are we sufficiently
: contributing to it? If not, why not? This issue came up more than
: once. Prakash Advani explained the lack of development for Linux/GNU
: from India being due to two problems (i) lack of a good Internet
: infrastructure till recently and (ii) developers haven't found a
: model where they get paid to develop for Linux, and for most
: programmers in India, money to live on, is indeed an issue.

This problem is precisely addressed by Freedevelopers.net, a global
group of free software developers from all nations, where all the
developers are paid industry standard salary for writing free
software. Please visit

  http://www.FreeDevelopers.net

Those interested to contribute to free software and earn a standard
living may kindly join the group. This gives an opportunity for
we Indians to become the part of the free software movement (as
rightly pointed above, Indian contribution hitherto is scant) who
cant work without a proper monetary compensation. There are a series
of projects on electronic governance like e-Vote, e-Deliberation,
etc. that are being poised for hefty funding by world organisations
like UN.


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