Open Source Picking Up in Asia
I've been to the OSBC conference in San Francisco three times now, but this is the first year I've talked to multiple people from Asia who were seriously interested in Open Source.
The snowball is just beginning to roll.
There's an enormous population of developers outside of the US, Europe, and South America who are starting to discover Open Source above the operating system. It's only a matter of time before they outnumber the English-speaking incumbents in the Open Source world, so will we start to see Open Source project lists conducted primarily in Chinese? Japanese? Korean?
It seems quite possible that we'll see competing projects that do pretty much the same thing but with a different culture driving them. Perhaps a Chinese copy of Struts or a Japanese flavor of Hibernate is in the cards?
This will definitely be an interesting few years.
