The sad state is that even the most employees of Tech companies from India - >SWITCH (all different companies acronyms) just are not aware of OSS. Even now from UK, when I spoke to my sister (an amazing java programmer in TCS - graduated out of a top uni in Bangalore) about Signal(app) she was surprised, remarking what is the problem with WhatsApp? who cares about OSS? Like the gaming T-shirts in DO hacktoberfest

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658052

they are constantly looking to see if I can make a buck. Contributing free is something that will need generosity - only after they get rid of some amount of poverty and improve their economic levels.

There was some hope when XDA and Android ROM tended to explode in India, but it is a bit lost. Most ROM-groups locked up asking for PayTM money (equiv. of paypal) for even seeing your github repo. (Think it was a bad thing github gave free private repos - after MS acquisition).

(PS: I am from India)