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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:Another Perspective on Jobs Lost Overseas by eclectro · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unfortunately the only jobs that are going to be left for americans to work at is going to be at the local WalMart. There will be no shortage of those jobs.

    Just that all the high-skilled jobs will go to oversea programmers who have no problem working for $.25 an hour.

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    Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  2. Re:It's all good... by RickHunter · · Score: 0, Troll

    Africa, Russia, and China. Don't forget China, where the government can keep wages down by tossing labour rights agitators and those that try to improve the situation of the people in prison.

    Here's a phrase to describe this type of "capitalism": economic piracy.