Java and India
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.
