What Indian IT Companies Could Learn From Infosys’s Open-Source Journey?

For most Indian IT companies, open-source initiatives were limited to a one-way participation of consuming the code, until a critical question at Infosys changed the way the firm approached open-source: What's the gain in giving back to the open-source community? The query led Infosys to discover that open-source meant more than coding, “it’s a way of thinking,” said Prabhat Kumar, global head of the Open-source Program Office (OSPO) at Infosys.  The company moved from being consumers of open-source to becoming active participants, eventually undergoing a cultural shift, he said while addressing a session on “Building open-source culture in an enterprise: The Infosys OSPO story” at the Linux Foundation India open-source summit in Hyderabad, recently. By encouraging