On 17-May-11, at 6:22 AM, Santosh Rajan wrote:

Ok let me tell you the whole story scientifically.

"The chances of anyone succeeding with an Open Source Project or Startup Company is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between San
Fransisco and the location of this OpenSource/Startup Project".

Okay, let's assume this to be true. Now we need to determine the causality. What are the possible reasons? Here are some:

1. A person in India will fail at trying to create a business around open source, but is more likely to succeed at precisely the same endeavour, if they move to the Valley. It is the environment that counts, not the person.

2. People outside the Valley are incapable of creating/running that kind of business, because they don't know how to do it right. Moving to the Valley might increase their chances, since they will have better access to people who can teach or inspire them.

3. People who are already in the Valley are inherently superior, and us little people in India are wasting our time trying to emulate them.

These are three possible hypotheses. What are yours?

-Taj.
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