[HanoiLUG] HanoiLUG Digest, Vol 32, Issue 32

[Jean Christophe André]

NAHieu a écrit :
> You missed a point: while they did that, they still guide their students to do research. So indirectly, they still contribute to open source world if their students do that (directly). So I am fine with that.
>   
To do research, yes. To keep an absolute secret on their source in the
goal to patent it, yes. To contribute to open source, no. I know what
I'm talking about since I was there.

Once again, doing research and doing it open is really not related, sadly...

> I am talking about research, and Linus was a researcher then.
>   
He was student, as also says Wikipedia. But, well, I agree every student
can be considered as a researcher in many ways... ;-)

> As I said, they do their contribution indirectly, so that is fine. Clearly researchers outnumber the teachers, so you dont see many around.
>
> Or your point of view is different from mine. I myself see that most advanced contributions come from universities/institutes.
>   
I agree with this. I think we are just talking about different ideas:
yours is that FOSS come from universities or research and I do agree
with that. Mine is that there is not that many teachers participating in
public community discussions like a LUG. But it's only my strong
personal opinion and I will be really happy to be proved wrong on this.

>> And so I'm happy to see a Vietnamese teacher on this list! Because it's announcing original Vietnamese FOSS products to come! ;-)
>>     
> Hope so. Not sure if we can wait though. We are lagging behind badly.
Of course the Vietnam is lagging behind. It's not that strange for a
country just coming out of wars and having started using Internet in
1994 (and it was only UUCP at that time). The Internet was really fully
open only in 2001. What would you expect in only 6 years? And last but
not least, the Asian culture of enforcing secrecy to keep power, and so
to not "share", is a real handicap for FOSS developing.

But personally I'm confident that Vietnam is awakening on this matter.
Just take a look at what we got in only one year this 2007! Now that
Vietnam is willing to use FOSS, surely will come to contribute to it.
Knowing how Vietnamese people can be fast when then know what they
want... WTO be prepared! ;-)

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