[Fsf-friends] this may be off topic but ..

[Pramode C.E.]

--- Kush <be_a_sport at rogers.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if the computing movement in India
> has some sort of plan 
> for putting information on the web about computer
> pioneers and leaders 
> etc in India or from India, who have done some
> amazing things or are 

Good idea - but we may not find too many names in the
list.

> 
> I know atleast 3 stories of great work done by
> people of Canadian 
> origin(RIm-- blackberry phenomena, QNX real time OS
> from waterloo univ, 
> APL or J by Ken Iverson) but very little about
> Indian achievements 
> (except Vinod Khosla's being one of the 4 who
> started Sun microsystems 
> and Sabeer Bhatia who started hotmail). 

Can it be because there has been no great `Indian
Achievements' so far?

> The germans,
> italians, french, 
> chinese and the japanese and now even the south
> Americans, Korean etc 
> take so much pride in being leaders in specialised
> areas of the open 
> source movement whereas we don't hear much of our
> pioneers.

How many `pioneers' do we have? 

Makes me think of India's greatest contribution to the
world of mathematics ;-)






		
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