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I'm the founder of WSO2 which developed Ballerina. Also the person who started the project and lead it.

WSO2 is an enterprise software product company with 500+ customers in 70+ countries and 600 employees globally.

We promoted Ballerina like that because we are proud of the work we do and wanted to show it off to people. You may not like the work we produce but trying to say its to get "consultancy work in India" is rather racist.

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> I'm the founder of WSO2 which developed Ballerina. Also the person who started the project and lead it.

Congrats and thank you!

> We promoted Ballerina like that because we are proud of the work we do and wanted to show it off to people.

And rightly proud!

> You may not like the work we produce but trying to say its to get "consultancy work in India" is rather racist.

Saying it's to get "consultancy work in India" might be wrong (you promote Ballerina because you're proud of your work), but I fail to see how it's racist. Even if it was true, it wouldn't be racist.

I think the racist bit might be assuming the primarily Sri Lankan company is from India.

No, the racist bit is the implicit assumption that people in this part of the world can only do services and not creative technology development.

We can do both, just like anyone else in any country.

that seems geographically/culturally ignorant rather than racist, but maybe i missed it

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