Matt Asay asks why Asia doesn’t contribute more to open source. It’s an interesting question, and the responses are equally interesting. There are a few in the comments to Matt’s piece, for example, pointing out Asia’s contribution to projects such as Ruby on Rails, not to mention Andrew Tridgell’s crucial involvement in the Samba project.
Those are the exception rather than the rule, however. There are also a few clues regarding the comparative lack of open source contribution from Asia in the ZDnet article that prompted the question in the first place.
“Harish Pillay, open source evangelist with Red Hat Asia-Pacific, acknowledges …
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