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India, once seen as fertile ground for open-source software, has yet to embrace the development model in the way many hoped it would. As a developing country with an emerging pool of talented, industrious programmers, India was once seen as a natural fit for open-source software. But today, while the country has software developers by the thousand, only a fraction of them do work in the open-source area.
A big reason is that most developers work for large outsourcing companies, where decisions about whether to develop proprietary or open-source software are largely dictated by their customers.
