But that withstanding I do not support universities teaching such high level languages (Java, C#) without going into sufficient depth the lower level ones, C and Pascal in particular.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Frankline Chitwa
<frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
Everyone I know in every industry or career also in the same situation and rising costs of living also do not help.
I think the grass is greener on your side because you do not need to
invest any hard cash or monetary investments, assets, overheads.
One other point, microfost and proprietary software has been "free" in this KE for a long time. People use these applications without licence restrictions. The education sector is channeled to proprietary certificates, even Uni courses have started being taught using C# and not open standards stuff like C and C++.
Now one thing I have to say, and microsoft knows this, and other proprietary vendors know this, the moment they try to make africans buy their software that is the day Africa will turn open source. So they are bidding their time hoping that people will be addicted to proprietary through education and daily use enough to continue using $$ software upon pricing. Not gonna happen. On the day The moment the well established piracy sector is cornered with Redmond licensces etc, then you will see major open source contributions here.
All in all, other than what youve tried to state above I believe that you see my point. In kenya we are at the open source consumption point. Its only by using software will people appreciate developing it.
We will be contributing in the near future.
@Frankline, some thots below. :-)
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Frankline Chitwa
<frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
Most developers here don't earn enough to have hobbies, they are always busy 24/7 trying to make ends meet. That is what am saying.
The grass always seems greener on the other side? I don't think only KE devs are trying to make ends meet. Everyone I know in every industry or career also in the same situation and rising costs of living also do not help. I think the grass is greener on your side because you do not need to invest any hard cash or monetary investments, assets, overheads. Maybe you guys should borrow from the banks or such and work on 4-7% profitability and numbers, then we would be talking a different line altogether where you have to work the real 24/7 to survive.
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