> Ok then I guess I don't understand your point
sorry for that. the logic chain is a bit long... I was working on exploiting the problem of the statement "if Chinese people have Maker culture there will be (same_ratio * population_base) open source projects". I should have quoted it there.
Anyway there's one thing clear (for me), that one create and share when he/she stops struggling for living.
So ok here's a better model:
(same_ratio * max(0, non_struggling_population(china))
But given the fact that open source didn't make it here, this one doesn't make sense (because I know that some little portion of this huge base is really not struggling). nevermind:
(get_ratio_by_culture(china) * max( ..... ))
^
`this is what we get at this point.
Ugh, too simple isn't it, I'd really like to see something more interesting.
Let's first not introduce forums, IM groups of producers.
Just consider one thing: Chinese people crack things.
The more 'struggling' they are, the more they crack, but the skill gets lower.
Say that now we have a close source binary.
Some top-notched hackers extracted/disassembled the code to make it more readable, and runnable. (Maybe they're from Russia, just sayin :-D
Lower tier programmers bind hooks to the routines.
Lower tier programmers use editors to iterate through the binary to seek for useful literals, inject resources to make mods...
Lower tier resellers, though not capable of these technical stuff, are able to follow the tutorials released by all higher tiers, and subtly modify the thing.
And this model suddenly becomes a non-deterministic close-source-binary cracking ecosystem, that tries many possible solutions simultaneously, and hierarchically(given the fan-out factor high enough between each two tiers).
Yeah I know you would never say this is "good". But I think this is at least mathematically interesting. And it gives some sense to how to utilize this kind of ecosystems to do something real(though this model is still far from realistic).
> I would say that both Japan and Korea are ahead
Sure. Just consider get_ratio_by_culture() and non_struggling_population().
get_ratio_by_culture() is similar. It doesn't mean the current whole picture is similar. But the later one is variable and the former one is nearly const.