Something for nothing, or community effort?

Something for nothing, or community effort?

Posted Mar 29, 2006 20:58 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
In reply to: The powerful appeal of something for nothing (Financial Times) by Stavros
Parent article: The powerful appeal of something for nothing (Financial Times)

It seems people from the first world sometimes think of developing countries as a savannah where you have to pedal to generate the electricity for the computer, and use smoke signals for wireless internet connection.

I now live in Brazil, and am originally from Europe. I can tell you that we have very high technology here! And we do develop software for our needs that we then release under (L)GPL. Check for things like TerraLib.

Also, loads of this type of countries (India, China, Brazil, ...) have a higher-than-you-may-think level of education, and when students use GNU/Linux at Uni, they tend to use their spare time developing for it rather than for other OS's. Example: the 2.4 series of the Linux kernel is maintained by a Brazilian (olá Marcelo!).

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