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- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:03:26 +0900
- From: Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [tlug] Open-source Japan
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Gen Kanai wrote: > On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Noah Watkins wrote: >> I was recently reading the slides, 'Open-source in China', from >> O'Reilly's OSCON 2008. And it got me to thinking about what the state >> of open-source in Japan is. Hopefully some people on this list who >> are in the trenches can chime in on the topic. > > I've been tracking this topic pretty regularly via my blog: > > http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/07/16/significant-linux-contributors-from-japan/ > If you are looking at acceptance of Open-source in Japan, looking purely at contributions distorts things because there seems to be a lot more Open-source consumers who don't contribute back to the projects they use. When I purchased a Japaneses car navigation system it came with a laundry list of open source licenses. I don't believe the vendor had directly contributed to any of the projects these licenses applied to. Edward
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