[Ilugc] Interview of Linus Torvalds; He Also Speaks Of Sad Situation Of India
- From: santho89@xxxxxxxxx (santhosh kumar)
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:51:30 +0530
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, 0 <0 at 0throot.com> wrote:
http://www.muktware.com/news/2855
IMO, cultural difference is just too great to even compare the two
worlds. Open source contribution in India will evolve and adapt over
time that suits our culture, the existing western style doesn't work
very well in India. This is NOT a sad situation, just in Linus' opinion.
The following quote from the interview are interesting, in a way, to
indicate that attributing success of Linux to one man would be
disrespectful to several others who have contributed in the last decade.
"There are about 70-80 people that I come to meet here. And honestly I
know about half of them pretty well. So there are almost 40-50 people I
have worked with so long that I know what they look like, probably I
know where they live, but, for every release there are a thousand
developers."
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The most important problem is the poor quality of education and curriculum
set forth. Final year engineering students are studying HTML and believe me
ive seen people by hearting the tags, and scratch their heads when doing a
practical exercise in HTML. Its that bad. To add to this, the quality of
faculties, people who have just completed thieir PG's which they obviously
completed immediately after their UG is taken as a lecturer. Without any
real world knowledge what good are they to the students they teach.
If you compare the faculties with that of foreign universities, all the
faculties would have done something significant in their field of expertise
but right here, you can never expect that. A good faculty amounts to half
the knowledge what the student gains in college and if they themselves have
no real world exposure how will they be able to transfer the knowledge.
I am not sure about other parts but im from tamilnadu, and there are about
400 engineering colleges under anna university and i can tell you the above
mentioned is the case with all the colleges expect the top 30 or so.
License are being sold like cup cakes without any inspection for standards.
The Curriculum is 10 years behind, how will the quality of engineers who
pass out would be.
Some of the corrective actions could be
1.Updating the curriculum atleast once in two years (@ tech is growing this
might have to come down to twice a year)
2.Issuing licenses to colleges which meets the standards
3.Setting proper standards first for each and every discipline
4.frequent inspections to the college to check they maintain the standards
set forth
5.setting criteria for lecturers
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