Are there no such eequivalent resources available in the Indian market? Or is there a cultural difference at play here?

The issue is with the education system we (Indians) have right since primary school. Everything is spoon fed and self learning is not imbibed at all. By the time a student reaches university, he gets habitual of spoon feeding.

The scenario is changing now but the fruits will come out only after a decade or so.

we can agree to disagree on Dave’s contributions’ value, but i do think he is pushing the envelope. The URL solution by Moreno, inspired directly by Winers post earlier about the problems with URL shorteners, is brilliant. And Winer is one of the few pundits who actually codes – i dont see the Techcrunch gang or the RWW crew doing that. And I dont see you doing much punditry, either the gulf between the pundits and the hackers is a large one in the techworld, and that may be part of the problem.

The only person out there in the tech punditsphere who actually gets his hands dirty and tinkers with code is Dave Winer, and he has built some really elegant things.

Good post. Check for typos though. My problem is with this statement. How do you know no one is doing anything? Seems to me that, in a down economy, the people who know how to do technical things, buckle down and actually do them. I feel like this whole argument is short sighted and presumptious.

And Winer isn’t doing anything close to innovating. He’s hacking around making shiny trinkets.