[UbuntuWomen] Introductions - Aruna Vallur

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:33 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Aruna Vallur <vkaruna.os at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, why is there a misconception that once corporate work starts, volunteer
>> work(in this case, for open source programming) should most likely end? Just
>> asking :-)
>
> In most countries, very few people working in IT companies manage to
> find time for anything mainly because they are overworked and
> companies do not want more staff. The regulations are all manipulated
> or do not exist in the first place.
>
> In India for example, people belonging to that category can be ruled
> out from FOSS or any activities unless the company itself is a foss
> based one.

There are IT companies that employ people to work on Foss, albeit not
a large number.

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