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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!