OK, I must answer you just in the spirit of freedom of thought. What I see is that this discussion has been had before, with similar intonations from you and others on your side of the divide. To suggest that Kenyan developers do not contribute any code to the Open Source community is to mislead people. I dont know what research you are basing your statements on. There is a good number of Kenyan developers who are doing amazing stuff in the global OS community that I know of. There are probably tens or hundreds more whom we dont know, but they are doing it still. It would be good to know (and I have asked this question before), of the leading proprietary systems in the world, how many Kenyan Developers have participated in their development? What is it that the local proprietary developers can stand up and say they have done to contribute to some leading system development wise? I am not suggesting that there isnt, but it would be good to know. To me, the arguments that you provide look like mere rhetoric, trying to lead the thought processes of unsuspecting minds. Have a good day. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:37 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello @Evans, actually the yawn has been on my side since I began this thread due to the lack of proper engagement of discussion. :-) . I know you are not at code level, so will diffuse this right here but as an active Linux Association in Kenya, do active member coders/developers know why they don't involve themselves at the fundamental layer of the free-code to improve on e.g. bugs or updates in the Linux OS. Case example: Many versions did not take the USB modems initially, did any get involved and wrote code to patch the kernel rather than wait for an update from some external knowledgebase.
Rgds.
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