tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366865.post3883664797031342632..comments2024-01-16T14:13:50.160+01:00Comments on all mine!: Who is KDE part XXXJos Poortvliethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05243886270488333877noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366865.post-40278509485165166372010-05-03T04:59:15.810+02:002010-05-03T04:59:15.810+02:00Keep us abreast of these news: I reread it twice a...Keep us abreast of these news: I reread it twice and am very interested.<br /><br />The most fascinating thing with Free Software projects are the fact taht the people come from so many countries and this is as fascinating on a sociological level as a technical one.<br /><br /><br />My friends uncle teaches in a brazilian university and he said in 2009-2010 he had more than 60% who used Gnu-Linux on a semi regular or regular basis and about 10-15% who had already contributed to a free software project. 10 years ago he could count on one hand the first year students who had any experience using Gnu-Linux.<br />He is very passionate and enthusiastic about the future in his country and south america in the OS fields because students can make an impact at a young age in FLOSS.<br />Sure, first year students arent going to be working on the kernel most usually but every project has grunt work to do and someone who does well at those long and boring tasks will welcomed when they are ready for more challenging tasks.<br />While his brother works in a major canadian university and you cant use the schools network if you are running a Linux OS on your laptop..<br />Needless to say both brothers have a totally different outlook of where we are headed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com