Category: Business and Economics

  • Entrepreneurship and Open Source Software Charity?

    Rajiv Poodar has a great post on Wireless Utopia: Open Source and Charity about his frustration in explaining open source business models to others in Bangalore. It’s not a problem specific to Bangalore, though. Charity is a dirty word in business circles. Free Open Source Software is considered charity. Therefore FOSS == Dirty. Free Software…

  • Another Cog in the Wheel

    Here’s a great post on Amit Ranjan’s personal blog about how large technology and outsourcing companies in India are turning the cream of the crop engineers into just more cogs in their wheels. I worked at a very large Wall Street firm for a few years and then I’ve worked at small companies (small in…