[NTLUG:Discuss] Hidden Malware in offshore products raisesconcerns

[Greg Edwards]

Lance Simmons wrote:

> Consumers demand cheap avocados and cheap technology, and the Buchanan
> and Nader campaigns in 2000 uncovered no groundswell of support for
> limiting that demand.
> 

I grant that you're right on one front.  The consumer has accepted that 
price and perception over real quality is acceptable.  Part of that we 
can only blame ourselves for since our entire industry stood by and let 
Mr. Bill (SNL & Gates if you missed that one) convince upper management 
and the general user that there's no such thing as bug free software.

However you are way off on globalization.  The drain of technology jobs 
has nothing to do with free trade and gloablization.  Unlike many 
industries that have seen a mass exodus the labor costs for these jobs 
were a result of the free market system, not union wage negotiations.  I 
don't mean to sound cruel, but these are not textile workers earning 3 
times the value of their work.  These are the people that created the 
technology that some MBA type claims he should be paid 8 figures to 
oversee the demise of.  Engineers built MCI and MBAs destroyed it, 
that's a fact!!

Tom is right about the tech sector making a stand and not dying despite 
the best efforts of the so called business geniuses.  Where I see it 
happening right now is the number of people that have decided to write 
those new programs for the internet and the hell with IBM, Northern 
Telecom, AT&T, HP, Price Waterhouse, The Associates, and the rest of 
them.  These companies have made billions from our work and now they 
think they can make 10 times that by paying an Indian worker $8/hr.

I predict that in the next year the number of new independent software 
vendors selling products directly to users on the internet will 
overwhelm even the biggest software houses.  Hey, if they won't pay us 
to built it for them maybe we'll just pay ourselves for building it!!!

Let the MBAs have their 8 figure incomes and lets see them build the 
next Quicken or the next generation broadband without us!!!  And lets 
see them compete against the IP that they walked out the door with all 
of the product knowledge tucked neatly away in the heads leaving the 
building.

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Greg Edwards
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