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Open-ness to Open-Source My Amazing Tech Journey

Being open is at the root of democratisation. Knowledge gets trapped in languages, books and always in educational systems. Getting that knowledge out of the classrooms is challenging stuff. While world is striving for novelty the open-ness movement has started taking shape. From my childhood days, I have been always a follower of openness and hence hardly school walls could trap me inside. Openness is democratisation of knowledge, information or infrastructure that could allow you to build knowledge. Open source movement is about making these artefacts, source code or avenues to reach, avenues to build and avenues to reciprocate knowledge available publicly. This can allow everyone to make his hand dirty, everyone to contribute and build knowledge sources, use knowledge sources. Whether it could be Google or Microsoft scientist or coder next door everyone has same access to information and knowledge repositories and that is in true sense open source. I think Saint Dn