I think and strongly feel that opensource work is incomplete without openideas. In my past experience I have found that people in two different parts of world can face similar issues in daily life and can come up with similar or same ideas/solutions; and they might not know about each other's work for years altogether. Will, only the person who goes public first, have rights to those ideas and solutions? What sense does it make?
I don't know how to express it, but it looks some kind of demeaning-of/disrespect-to human mind and it's thinking capabilities. I am not satisfied that I have translated what-I-wanted-to-express into words here. May be over the time I will be able to express my thoughts and feellings about the same more clearly.
I feel to give completeness to OpenSource initiative, we need to have OpenIdeas as well, whereby people over the world can share their ideas with the community and let ideas breathe freely beyond the prison of patents. OpenIdeas will act as a forum for people to help in the cause.
Hoping that OpenIdeas gets to see light of the day and lives. I have conveyed above feelings regarding OpenIdeas in a mail to Richard Stallman (rms at gnu period org), let's hope something fruitful comes out of this for the people of world.
To start with I have already shared lot of my ideas (crazy-fancy-useful) with community at http://www.geocities.com/shimple0/techcorner.html .
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Notion of part time working in software companies in India
I wonder if it will be a enlightment for people running software companies in USA, Western Europe and Australia, that 40-45 hours/week of work committment is considered as part-time working by software companies operating in Indian subcontinent. May be they want to do it in their respective countries as well, but their governments and labour laws are the hindrances they haven't managed to get rid of or circumvent.
A significantly large no. of companies representatives that contacted me directly or indirectly in past 15 months, get highly put off when told that I won't be able to give them more than some fixed hours of week. Couple of them mentioned that they are looking for 10-12 hours/day 6-7 days/week kind of work commitment; others have tried to act fair (in talks) about work culture and ethics at their place but later revealed the hidden agenda. Software development companies in India look for full-time workers, whose 24 hours/day of life they can control.
Fault also lies with Indian workers, who anyways have spoiled the habits of companies abroad and taken away bread and butter resources of many local people. Give them a slightly bigger piece of pie than they expect and..., well when they themselves are ready to be milked, why would corporate sharks leave any opportunity to drain even that last drop?
Sometimes I wonder if it is case only with IT workers that get more lured by the a dollor being equal to many rupees?
A significantly large no. of companies representatives that contacted me directly or indirectly in past 15 months, get highly put off when told that I won't be able to give them more than some fixed hours of week. Couple of them mentioned that they are looking for 10-12 hours/day 6-7 days/week kind of work commitment; others have tried to act fair (in talks) about work culture and ethics at their place but later revealed the hidden agenda. Software development companies in India look for full-time workers, whose 24 hours/day of life they can control.
Fault also lies with Indian workers, who anyways have spoiled the habits of companies abroad and taken away bread and butter resources of many local people. Give them a slightly bigger piece of pie than they expect and..., well when they themselves are ready to be milked, why would corporate sharks leave any opportunity to drain even that last drop?
Sometimes I wonder if it is case only with IT workers that get more lured by the a dollor being equal to many rupees?
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