Asia and Open Source: Poised for an Explosion

... In a world of open source development around a free software commons, much of the money paid for value stays in the local economy, developing skills in the workforce and growing local businesses with globally applicable skills. That's why Asia has seen a 40% increase in FOSS developers in the last three years - it's catalysed by all that use of open source by the governments (and by business in places like Singapore where they give tax breaks for using open source). That's why OpenSolaris is on the curriculum in over 100 universities in India (even without a formal pro-FOSS policy from the government). That, sadly, is why the greatest number of FOSS developers per capita is now in India and China and not in Australia (where it used to be).

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