Open source 'leaving Asia behind'  Novell veep warns of
collaborative culture clash  Build a business case: developing
custom apps  The open source community risks leaving Asian users
and developers behind, thanks to cultural differences and
western business's tendency to treat programmers there as code
monkeys rather than software designers, a senior Novell staffer
has warned.  Kurt Garloff, the company's global product
opportunities veep, said that while open source communities
regard criticism as constructive, others see it as insulting.
Speaking at the start of the company's Hackweek in Germany, he
argued that software companies need to find ways to mitigate the
sometimes confrontational nature of open source development, if
Asian developers are not to be excluded.  "If you look at the
open source mailing lists to see where the posts come from, it
is almost exclusively white males, from Europe, including
Eastern Europe and Russia now, and North America, plus some from
South America," he said. "The absence