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China PM Wants to Rule Global Tech With India
GrumpyDeveloper writes "As reported in this Wired story, China's prime minister said Sunday that China and India should work together to dominate the world's tech industry, bringing together Chinese hardware with Indian software.
Somewhere, there's a joke begging to be told.
If American tech workers can't compete at the pennies-per-hour salary range, then they deserve to lose their jobs to the superior foreign technological forces. And stop whining about "oh, but I need to buy groceries" and "I need to save up for my child's college fund and my retirement".
At least, this is what I've heard.
I, for one, welcome our new high-school management retail wage-slave jobs of the future.
Is outsourcing to North America part of their plan :)
My substandard chinese parts can be serviced by substandard indian technicians!
Having read the article thoroughly, this startling news shows the flaws in the brewing Open Source Zeitgeist that is gripping the software community. Have you considered that providing software for free to countries such as China is essentially tacit support for oppressive regimes?
Far-fetched? Think about it: With MySQL, the People's Army will now be able to do multiple queries on their tables of democratic activists in Olog(n) time instead of lengthy searches in card catalogs. The bureaucratic overhead previously allowed activists enough time to flee the country. How about building cheap firewalls so the people can't get the unbiased reporting that CNN provides? Or using Apache to publish lists of Falun Gong people to their police forces instantly? I doubt that never crossed your minds when you were coding away in your parents' basements. Consider putting that little thought in your mental resolv.conf file.
If that does not concern you ( which it probably doesn't, since the slashdot.org paradigm is publishing articles about how not to pay for things ), consider something else. When China eventually goes to war with Taiwan, we want to be able turn their command and control facilities into the computing equivalent of a train-wreck. One of the advantages of Windows never mentioned in the article is the ability of Microsoft to remotely deactivate Windows XP in the case of a national emergency. Thanks to GNU/Lunix, Taiwan will be on a collision course with the mainland in the near future.
Which throws into question Mr. Stallman's motives. A known proponent of socialism, the Chinese government and RMS are natural allies. Could it be a back door to Stallman's dream of an über-Socialist United States? We may never know for sure. Next time you consider contributing to an open source project, ask yourself this question: don't you want to make sure your work isn't used for nefarious purposes? Will you risk having blood on your hands?
Great! Now we won't be able to understand in two different languages!
Isn't this where Peter Wiggin joins with the Thai army and defeats the Indo-Chinese alliance?
Raging in an online forum won't do anything for the world around you. To see change, you must take action.
Why would indians want to get mixed up with the Chinese? Seems like this would jeopordize their lucrative Casino businesses.
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Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
...salute our new Chindian overlords! ;)
The same thing we do every night, India...
Welcome to a Brave New World of Tech Support Hell.
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
I can't wait to read the manuals!
Get your Unix fortune now!
In Heaven:
The French are the chefs,
the Italians are the lovers,
the Swiss are the bankers,
the Germans are the mechanics,
and the British are the police.
In Hell:
The British are the chefs,
the Swiss are the lovers,
the Italians are the bankers,
the French are the mechanics,
and the Germans are the police.
JA
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I can't wait to read the manuals!
Like you would read them anyway.
for bad software running on bad hardware?
I suggest we indict, try, convict and sentence to death by hanging all the CEOs and politicians who took part in this outsourcing/free trade scam.
Sentence 'em all to death by hanging, and then eat their bodies. That way we can all be "consumers" again!
Of course, they would have to be tried in a court of law before being tried. And we may have to change a couple of laws to let us do this.
But it is gonna be SO MUCH FUN to...EAT THE RICH!
eat shiat and bark at the moon
Hey Bush knows what he is doing. Everything will be fine.
If I am going to be assimilated by India I should probably pick a Hindi god to worship. I am not sure which god to worshop though. There are so many interesting ones to choose from.
Nonsense. The same things were said when Japan made a move to dominate the car industry, so what happened?
Whew! We have nothing to worry about! The Chinese-Indian challenge to the American-dominated computer industry will be as innefectual and short-lived as the Japanese challenge to American auto-makers.
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