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 Dnyaneswar was the first person who understood importance of open culture and open source. He made knowledge in Vedas and other places which was imprisoned by difficult words, and cryptic language available to everyone. He democratised the knowledge and made it available, made it flow smoothly. He was a true Open Source warrior since he did not have any business objective or career milestones while starting this open-source movement. It was very much unlike some of the open source enthusiasts today. But that does not undermine efforts of these new open source warriors – they are contributing to social cause by saving billions of dollars. This democratisation led to democratisation of opportunities. This made me to fall in love with this movement and I started looking into it. This was beginning of my open-source journey. The openness of mind and openness of thoughts is the platform to it. The crutches of license era are slowly diminishing and open-source sun is shining… I am sure this movement ultimately contribute to ultimate democratisation.  Making resources and knowledge available for everyone and making sure that it reaches to everyone in true and pure form…