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I am sorry to say this. Indian Java economy accounts for 10-15% of the world’s Java economy but still many of us dont contribute to open source. We basically just have been leechers.

I recently read a mail which describes us as coders. We are not developers or programmers. We dont develop new things. We dont create new programs. We just write code. Just like data entry operators.

Richard Stallman, the brain behind the GNU GPL, quoted, “When i was a kid in school, my teacher used to say when i bring candies to school, ‘Share it with your friends. Sharing is good’. But when i grew up, i really got surprised when people said no to sharing software. Thats illegal they said. Sharing is illegal”.

We do have social responsibility. We do need to give back what we got. Dont we?

If you really feel what I feel, please watch this video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409&q=revolution

How and why Linux evolved. How and why GPL evolved. How is Microsoft cheating us. I promise that this is the best video you are ever going to watch in your life. I cried.

Tags: india, java, linux

Now that Java has been open sourced under the GPL, even the most strict of the “free software only” distributions can start bundling it and integrating it into their Linux distributions out of the box. Indeed, many of them already have. In addition, the more ardent GPL supporters who have traditionally shunned Java can now embrace it as a first class citizen of the OSS world. Besides licensing Java under the GPL, The Swing team at Sun has also been hard at work improving the look and feel on the Linux desktop in Java 6. Take a look at the following two screen shots. One is the actual calculator from GNOME, and the other is a mock up in Swing using Netbeans and Matisse. Can you tell which is which?

Read this very interesting blog : Desktop Java and Desktop Linux

Tags: java, linux, opensource