You slashdotted it. Or something. I'm in Romania, which right now is a proud member of the European Union and thoroughly civilized. Well, it's in EU, anyways.

You slashdotted it. Or something. I'm in Romania, which right now is a proud member of the European Union and thoroughly civilized. Well, it's in EU, anyways. I'm talking about an ex comunist country with an literacy percent of 99 and university free education all the way. And still, every time I went into a public institution for the last 15 years I wished they'd let me write software for them for free. The problem is, they don't (i asked). There are more software companies here then mushrooms after a rain (my own startup included) and still the main clients are foreign. Both the private sector and the government are very very oblivious to any advantages software could bring. It pains me, but what developing countries need are not hackers, but evangelists, and damn good ones at that. More like missionaries, actually.