[Ilugc] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] Interview of Linus Torvalds; He Also Speaks Of Sad Situation Of India
- From: vigneshwaran2007@xxxxxxxxx (Vigneshwaran)
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:01:32 +0530
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, technocraze <technocraze at gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/3/2011 9:43 AM, Version Control Buddy wrote:
There is a fair amount of really enthusiastic local LUGs and I get to
hear about them. But, at the same time I don't know India, you know
much better. My gut feeling is that a lot of the actual professional
developers in India see software development as a job and not as a
hobby. That's the kind of picture I've gotten, I don't know if it's
true. If you see it [software development] as a job and not as a hobby
the whole open source thing is not as natural anymore.
I second it.. The whole life style of an indian student is spoiled
within 4 walls of the class room.. In reality, there is no hobby for
much of indian students, except for cinema, cricket and drinks.. The
common attitude we find among our people is to be jolly, which means.
free from any responsibility..
You are right. I fell in love with programming while studying 10th standard
(It was always fascinating to see something I created, work). So I joined
B.Tech IT and passed out this year. For past few years, I was creating open
source java applications and browser addons and participating in other's
projects in the evenings whenever I'm free and my projects were well
received (and also helped me get selected in interview. "Shortest
interview" my HR said). I wanted to influence all others in my class and
make them understand that we can learn ourselves and create whatever we
like. But others were not interested. They were just interested in the next
Vijay mass movie, Cricket, bunking class, going rounds etc like you said.
Even Mark scorers were convinced that it's enough to learn when the company
trains them and for now only marks are important and no need to "waste
time" like this.
In the end I could only change 5 friends who got the passion and made their
own projects individually and/or collaboratively and even taught me back
things I didn't know. All the others who memorized lab programs, who made
silly ugly errors like putting semicolon after if() statement in c and not
knowing it, who couldn't even "run" the project sold to them by project
centers(high profit business!) are now still searching for job. I did what
I could at first but then later I was more focused on improving myself
further as I thought it's useless to try to change people who don't wanna
change.
In my opinion, I guess the solution if there will be any should follow
bottom up approach. First enlightening students and making them passionate
in a field of their wish. It'll make talented faculties out of them if they
prefer that profession.
--
*Vigneshwaran Raveendran*
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