@Kirui leeching of ideas to & from OSS is usually two way traffic _______________________________________________ *Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.* _______________________________________________ * * 2012/4/5 Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com>
A good start would be in high schools; Say Science Congress or even have assembly and c programming covered in the syllabus for computer studies. For individuals, colleges and universities you'd have workshops for Building Linux from scratch with old and new kernels AND Linux kernel module programming - the source code for say, network cards is already available but why not make your own, see how near/far off you are from the actual manufacturers code.
Some may call it re-inventing the wheel, but all 8000 individual developers who contribute to the Linux kernel will tell you that they started by introducing a device that was not being recognized by the kernel, despite its source code lurking somewhere on the internet.
On 4/4/12, Humphrey Kirui <hkirui@gmail.com> wrote:
This is what may get a Kenyan/African name in the listing of any major software credits...
Though I think microsoft is actually leeching OSS ideas & core innovations only to package their own. Just my 2 cents there, coz I'm sure in the global arena, it's all a tango - quid pro quo.
Nice thinking there. Keep us posted.
Humphrey.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
If we could generate enough interest in the use and development of Linux at an early stage, then we could nature adequate talent(individual developers) required to draw interest from research and development investors like IBM and Intel in Kenya.
Microsoft as you might have read is now an active contributor to the development of the Linux Kernel. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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