“This is tricky,” began Slashdot blogger yagu, for example. “Without overgeneralizing, many people of color are fighting issues bigger than open source, at least for their personal reasons. As a demographic economically depressed, working for ‘free’ probably doesn’t light a fire for those trying to earn a baseline living.”
Add to that the cost of equipment, software and easy Internet access — things that are not as expensive as they used to be but are still factors to be considered when resources are modest, yagu pointed out.