The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) initiative has its own presence in India, and some controversy was generated regarding the ‘Omlette Post‘ published by Atul Chitnis. In response to that, Prashanth at desitech writes about his opinion of the controversy:

The main points of argument seem to revolve around the blatant undermining of other forms of contribution to the FOSS community such as submitting bug fixes, translations, etc. However, to offer my personal opinion in the matter. India has largely been at the bottom of the IT value chain pyramid. India is a force to reckon with in the IT industry, but in terms of intellectual capital being generated, India is no where close to that of the US. The way I see it, what foss.in is proposing to do is to encourage Indian FOSS developers to move up the value chain so that they contribute to projects’ new features and perhaps start successful new projects.