I guess people just don't do it for fun anymore. People just tend to like working on big profitable projects, and most proprietary projects are that way; they don't realize the value of small projects with a genuine focus on solving some problem despite little or no profit.
Another, perhaps more plausible, reason, is that people simply do not care about software at all; I'm sure many of you have stories of friends or cow-orkers using software from all sorts of places, disregarding license and acceptable use. On Feb 6, 2011 10:49 PM, "Miguel Paraz" <mpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Reviving this topic - we talked about this years ago but I think it's > worth revisiting. > > About the lack of open source contributions - Dean Berris puts it well: > http://deanberris.com/on-open-source-and-the-philippines > > Now this hits a nerve because it's one of my personal frustrations - I > haven't been able to contribute to open source in a long time. > Hope we could get the younger kids to do it. > > I remember one conclusion from last time was that if someone had the > talent and the time, they would better spend it on a sideline rather > on working on an open source project. > > I also came across Red Hat's map of open source activity: > http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/activity/ > > I don't think this is accurate - that the Philippines is 70th out of > 75 in community activity? > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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