Bazaar in the Cathedral – Changing faces of Open Source Software
shashiSome time ago - not too long ago - contributors to Open Source Software - nay Free Software - used to be highly motivated geeks mainly driven by the need…
Comments on the Government’s Draft Open Source Policy
It is heartening to note that the new Government is trying hard to involve people in more and more of their policy initiatives. One such initiative is their "Policy on…
Frugal Innovation and Android One
Android One looks to be the perfect example for global companies pondering overFrugal Innovation. The project seems to have got quite a few things absolutely right. The consumer price point…
Apple should buy Amazon. Here’s why!
Well, not the whole, but their entire technology division - including cloud and hardware. 'Apple is a great hardware company, but are clueless when it comes to software' - is…
When the chickens come home to roost!
14 March 2025 Hi, I’m Gyanesh Harindra - a 36 year old investigative journalist with The Hindustan Dak. Of late, my efforts at digging for the truth are throwing up…
On predilictions of predictions
So, Princeton University researchers claimed that they found strong evidence that Facebook will be largely abandoned by 2017, like an infectious disease. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-princeton-researchers-infectious-disease Engineers at Facebook were “intrigued†by the…