I think many Kenyans are of the "What's in it for me" dispensation. Therefore we use FOSS but do not actively contribute to it. I do know a Kenyan friend who contributes to Mozilla, but that's like ONE friend.... On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Lmwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Ouch. But it's true. Do we have a Kenyan (from the ground up) Opensource software. Something akin to Uganda's Mbuni? Other than Cybers, do we know if companies that are opensource all the way?
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen, we need to start walking the talk
http://www.betanews.com/article/Red-Hat-France-is-the-most-active-open-sourc...
Landing ahead of the US for "activity" in Red Hat's Open Source Index
this
year were these countries, in the following order: France, Spain, Germany, Australia, Finland, the UK, Norway, and Estonia. Also among the 75 countries surveyed by Red Hat and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Denmark took tenth place.
At the opposite extreme of the open source spectrum, the study found these ten countries to be the least active, in descending order: Algeria, the Philippines, Morocco, Cameroon, Yemen, Latvia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Kenya, and Moldova.
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