[HanoiLUG] HanoiLUG Digest, Vol 32, Issue 32

[Jean Christophe André]

NAHieu a écrit :
> Willing teachers from developped countries? That is not a few but 99% of those who are in computer field.
Well... I had a very different view when I was student and then working
in two French universities... ;-)

> The reason is that they do research, so it is inevitable that they do that in open source environment. As a result, directly or indirectly they conitribute (their research results) to open source.
>   
Both are not related, sadly... I can tell you because I had the occasion
to see people doing their research in a computer science laboratory and
they were just trying to make it as secret as possible in the announced
objective to patent it...

In my opinion what you are talking about only concern a few of them...

> From research point of view, lets say that the most important contributions to open source world come from research community. There is no exception as far as I see!
>   
This is quite obvious! This sentence is just self-referring... ;-)

Should I remind you that Linux had been made by Linus Torvalds, when he
was a student? He was not a teacher at all.

Now I agree that most of "most important contributions" have emerged
from research and universities. But how many teachers really did
participate to them? Look at the number of project members in comparison
with the number of computer science teachers. And then look again the
name of these people: you'll find that's often the same name for many
projects.

Now look again at the project developers: most of them have a job,
sometime not related at all, and are doing development in their free
time. They, too, are mostly not teachers.

> And too bad that not much, if any, come from Vietnam!
>   
And so I'm happy to see a Vietnamese teacher on this list! Because it's
announcing original Vietnamese FOSS products to come! ;-)

-- 
Jean Christophe "プログフ" ANDRÉ — http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/
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