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Microsoft's Big Stick in Peru
An anonymous reader points out a Wired story on the continuing Peru saga. In this latest episode, Wired notes that the U.S. Ambassador to Peru has chimed in in support of Microsoft and in opposition to Dr. Villanueva's bill which would have mandated open source software be used by the Peruvian government. On the one hand, sure, our diplomats have a national goal of promoting U.S. enterprise, but do we have to promote companies which we are simultaneously pursuing in court for numerous violations of our laws? Isn't that a bit counter-productive?
Some of you with jobs may disagree with me, but for the rest of the slashdotters out there, this is for you!
We've all seen people hurt by this economy. A family member, a friend, hell maybe a lover. Point is it's about time americans put a stop to H1-B's and foriegn outsourcing.
The people running these big corporations for the last 30 years must be shortsighted, because this has been happening since the 70's in more fields than just computing. Look at where that intel chip is being manufactured, more than likely in malasia!
Now we let it happen with our coding. How many spams a day have you recieved for, "Hire cheap indian coders! ASP, VB, C++ for just 20dollars a day?" We can no longer sit by and watch the corporations lie when they say "But we can't find any qualified people over here.
Look, I don't like M$ any more than the rest of you. 7 years of being a M$ jumpin fire monkey, I am BURNED OUT. I don't give a crap about why outlook crashes or how do you do something in word anymore. I've since moved onto higher things. Point is though, that was a job for me, taught me a lot, it let me grow in both my personal and financial life, here in USA.
If M$ wants to take it to peru, let them. As long as they keep the coders here working. Hey I know a lot of bi-lingual (spanish/english) coders live right here in San Jose, M$ has an office here. If they had to expand their support for more bi-lingual support it would create a lot of jobs around here. Sorry, but after a year of eatin ramen noodles to make house payments, I don't see nothing wrong in that.
There goes my dream of getting a job in Peru =)
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We give them some micro$oft and they give us some cocaine!
Yay! Globalization! Completely free trade! It's good for everyone! :-)
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If it brings with it all the checks and rights that the first world enjoys--yes. 'course, that's a pretty big "if."