Re: India Seeks Open Source

[John Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> They are doing a /lot/ of work on SuSE as far as I know. In tandem, they also
> do a lot of work on Windows.  They do a lot of everything, which I think is
> fair enough. Even Apple opened a call center in India last week.

I dunno.  "Doing work" doesn't mean just writing c# applications.    Are 
they making kernel contributions?   Are they generating new open source 
apps to share with the world?

> Look at the bright side, John. Development where cost is low appeals for a
> larger market. Imagine a scenario where pirated Windows in China reaches its
> end. As in the case of search engines (the "battele for China"), suddenly
> you have a huge volume and market share, all attributed to a single country.
> The global trends are reset accordingly.

That whole paradigm has been completely destroyed.   Outsourcing is 
being trounced by in sourcing.   And offshoring by onshoring.

Reason?  People have finally realized that software developing is a 
cultural process tightly coupled to the business model.  It is probably 
the one thing that *shouldn't* be done outside a business?!?