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MIT Students Get an Education in Software Development

Posted by michael on from the wake-up-and-smell-the-mango-lassi dept.

John Valenti writes "Philip Greenspun's Blog had an interesting entry for December 1: 'It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseware was done in India...'"

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  1. Re:You know you're really in trouble... by musikit · · Score: 5, Funny

    donno what school you went to but at the school i went to a large majority of the grad students were indian. so

    "You know you're really in trouble...
    when Indian developers are even cheaper than" Indian developers???

  2. Dear M.I.T., by mikesab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where abouts in India did you find these programmers?
    Yours Truly,

    Lumberg
    Manager,
    Intertech

  3. I must be in the wrong career track by rcastro0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I want back in the academic world !
    (...)about $2 million was spent on technology and the salaries of folks at MIT who oversee the technology. (...) A student asks the speakers why they chose Microsoft Content Management Server (...) The answer: "We read a Gartner Group report (...)"
    --
    Quem a paca cara compra, paca cara pagará.
  4. This makes me worry... by EulerX07 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that they would outsource my job to someone that wouldn't be reading slashdot right now and would actually be working.

    Darn! Gotta go, the boss is walking this way!

  5. Re:You know you're really in trouble... by ImpTech · · Score: 3, Funny
    "You know you're really in trouble... when Indian developers are even cheaper than" Indian developers???

    Hey, thats big trouble. Thats like a paradox or something!