On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
 
@Ashok, though am not Mr Microsoft or Mr Mac but am Mr Proprietary in the context of the mails, you have asked a very good question. Why if Windows holds e.g. 50% of the market share are desktop apps not being created that fast and diverse? I can tell you that when we have a strong C# and ASP.NET focus group/list, these are things that need to be answered and looked into. This is a large coder/developer market share to not only create but also financially benefit from and if members of the group will earn from their coding/developing, that is even better. 

if there is a mailing list give me the number of applications developed for the last five years. right now.
 
Now @Ashok, for my turn to ask you a good question since you have no idea why linus did the kernel. On the Web, LAMP is the standard for most web apps. Are there any kenyans contributing to any of these software/foundations in code, patches, updates or financially? Developers must be making money obviously, so what about the obligations of using free-code?


your argument may be a bit fallacious, its banking on various assumptions --

   1- every developer in kenya and beyond is a member of this mailing list
   2- every mailing list member is actually reading every mail posted to the list
   3- there is a mysterious god-like person going around and collecting statistics on individual code contributions graded geographically for the last 5 years

i could asset that the world is square, if no one responds to that assertion on skunkworks -- declare that the world is indeed square.