I totally share @Aki's view on this thread. Now about @Emanuel's views on re-inventing the wheel? That's what the US motor industry had to do, literally rather than just reinvent the wheel, they had to reinvent the concept of the cars consumers "need" just to stay afloat in the long run. For decades cars have been designed and built around certain parameters stored in on some bookshelf. Unfortunately some of those parameters are continually becoming irrelevant in this day and age with the economic situation as it is coupled with rising energy costs. For these reasons reinventing the wheel becomes necessary. I think what @Aki is saying is, with attitudes of us kenyans nothing would change. Look at Kenya railways. It was a major force to reckon with as far as mechanical engineering was concerned back in the 70s and 80s but the same coaches and engines that where used back them have deceptively been sufficient up until today... (nothing has changed).. okay lets go to something nearer home. The drivers licenses booklet thingy. Those things should have been changed years ago. So it's the same mentality with us kenyan developers. As long as it can be downloaded and plugged in; we are content with it as it is. @Aki unfortunately this thing is everywhere. look at local radio. one station starts "Secret Sound" and the rest adopt the idea and so on. So tuning in to each radio station you find the same old "creativity". across the board. Anyway i could go on and on and on. I am working on a "Secret" Personal project which I don't want to divulge and info on at this time. All I can say is it is nothing new but I am just implementing the wheel from scratch in a different way. At 1st when I started it looked impossible with today's technology but the more i proceed i keep discovering ways to do it. yep, that's it for now. SKYPE: sobbayi US: +1 202 297 6831 +1 202 470 0525 KE: +254 722 627 691 http://blog.sobbayi.com http://sobbayi.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275@googlemail.com> To: "Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2009 8:32:37 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Will Open source make developing nations dumber and dependent on freeware to run economies? @Emmanuel, thnks. I think FreeBSD is something that holds a unified light for OS which will make development easier. Well, I hope to see something new from local OS people sometime next year worth many mentions and achievements. Something to change perceptions that exist. When I mention dumbness, it is not meant as an insult but as a wake up call that things should be moving or we easily become Open Source Robots who can only do one thing : download this or that. I've shared me thots... nice week to all. :-) _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general