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A comment on Ask HN: How do developers in low-wage countries view Open Source?.

Re:Ask HN: How do developers in low-wage countries view Open... by dimitar on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:30PM (#33135726)
Having worked with IT departments and developers from developers from developing countries here is the following observations:

* Microsoft is still very dominant, people use pirated windows on PCs, and in a corporate setting MS tech stacks are very popular. Fewer people can afford MacBooks.

* Linux and free software ideology is not as popular. People want to get buy, not join a revolution.

* In many of these places there is a master-apprentice attitude toward learning. This is pretty much the opposite of the sharing ethos of Open Source. Why would you share your knowledge and software for free when you can charge people?

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Re:Ask HN: How do developers in low-wage countries view Open... by sam_lowry_ on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:49PM (#33135888)
Master-apprentice attitude is not about money, dude! Watch Star Wars, for god's sake!
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Re:Ask HN: How do developers in low-wage countries view Open... by dimitar on Saturday October 08, 2022 @05:46PM (#33136313)
We have a saying in Bulgarian - "a craft is not learned, it is stolen" which neatly explain the old school approach to learning and training, that is still present in most of world. The master will only train the apprentices the tedious and low-value parts of the craft.
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