An interesting discussion
I am just repeating what Praseed Pai blogged. An interesting discussion is going on at the Independent Programmers Group of Kerala mailing list. The link :
http://groups.google.com/group/ipgofkerala/browse_thread/thread/2968bb0b0934f46
Independent Programmers Group of Kerala (ipgofkerala) is an attempt to form a community which is not tied to any particular software vendor. The group targets developers from Kerala,India (Others are also welcome ) and is planning to focus on Computer Programming !.