Who says that proprietory Software houses do not support OpenSouce? most contributors in Opensouce world are mostly full time paid employees in Proprietory software houses. For example Microsoft contributes alot of man hours in the development of opensouce software www.codeplex.com

 

 

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:

There is much more to Open Source than just the code. In the OSS
ecosystem, there are many opportunities for different people with
different talents and resources to play a role.

During our open source awards ceremony earlier in the year, we
honoured a number of individuals (Kenyans) who have played a role in
the global OSS community. We have Kenyans with projects on source
forge, we have Kernel engineers like Benard who played a major role in
the development of Asianux, among others. This event was the first and
its intention was to encourage Kenyans to play a larger role in the
global Open Source community.

Rad, I know that you guys earning their bread in the proprietary
industry have a right to do so. I respect all of you. But I also know
that from your camp you have as much vile against OSS as we do against
proprietary. Take the article in the Nation the other day about MS and
Cisco "assisting" local schools with technology. This is merely a
self-serving marketing gimmick to perpetuate themselves and entrench
their technologies in the minds of the young students. Vendor lock-in
per excellence. This is what makes us lag behind in producing enough
guys who can play a wider role in open source because all the teaching
and training in schools and institutions of higher learning is done on
donated proprietary software.

There you have it.
Evans

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I once asked the same question to Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's "benevolent
>> dictator" ( the occasion was UbuntuBelowZero developer preparations for
>> Ubuntu 6.04). I'd noticed that 99.9% of the developers in the room were
>> white so I asked him how it was that an "African" distro (as it was being
>> marketed then) had virtually no African developers.
>
> I have never considered nor confined Open Source to "code contributors."
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