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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:Story has little merit... by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 5, Interesting
    All it tells you is that MIT...

    Which is training Americans to be software developers...

    outsourced the development of some software to Sapient who did the work in India,
    ...meaning they're not using American software developers...
    and that they used Gartner as a source of information when choosing the software platform.
    ...and that they made their choice of software based on the testimony of the most clueless bunch of soul-for-sale corporate bastards this side of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

    A bastion of American software development is acting in a way that furthers neither America nor software development. No further criticism or comment is needed. In the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson, res ipsa loquitur.

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