MOTIVATION TO USE F/LOSS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Most people of developed countries used to be F/LOSS professional (Subramanyam and Xia, 2008) and these people were mostly hackers who helped improved the system/application using the internet (Williams, 2002). Recently though practitioners and government from developing countries have emerged and are supporting F/LOSS (Hahn, 2002; Mingzhi and Jie, 2004; Tong, 2004; Li et al. , 2005 ). In developing countries, F/LOSS can assist in closing the digital divide (Stallman, 2003). Because of the software industry growth, government of developing countries are showing interest and making policies related to F/LOSS. With rise of Information and communication technologies (ICT), most of the students are choosing computers to be their profession in developing countries and the numbers of developers from developing countries are growing more rapidly in recent years. In their study, Subramanyam and Xia (2008) have found evidence of motivation being crucial in these parts of the world. Th...