Aki,<br>My opinion is Open Source is more important to the developing World than the developed due to flexibility in Licensing and cost of deploying and might be the only affordable option that will enable us catch up if we ever will with the developed world, in any case most licensing models have been developed for markets in the developed world. I think the greatest challenge we are facing is point of entry, at what age are we introduced to software developement, can someone do a comparison  between the developing and developed world as to when  people are introduced to  s/w developement this might be  the answer to our quest for innovation, in the developing world most guys tend to get into programming in their late teens or twenties when &quot;other priorities&quot; have caught up with them in life :-), Wesley i am keen to get your take on this...is age a factor with regard to entry level in programming?, sorry aki for deviating<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:46 AM, aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@googlemail.com">aki275@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Not to provoke any nerves etc and am just wondering aloud. As I see tech things evolve each day or month, I kind of get the impression Open Source will be a cause of a lot of misery, especially where it is involved in many versions and platforms. I think eg FreeBSD holds the Open Source key to future stability and development and should be the way forward for a single platform approach. </div>


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<div>Why are we creating modern type writers by running Open Source on laptops and desktops? </div>
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<div>me mid-week thots... :-)</div>
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