Layoffs at OSDL

daria42 writes "Open Source Development Labs - which employs Linus Torvalds - has apparently cut nine of its fifty-seven staff (although Linus has retained his job). The cuts come as the organisation re-structures. It will establish a European office and expand into Asia. "We're a small enough organisation that what would be a small change in focus for a bigger company has a large effect on us," said a spokesperson."

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Re:Outsourced ?.

[ehack]

Look at the standing joke that IBM, Dell, and Telstra technical support have become as a direct and specific result of their corporate decision to outsource to India. Then come back here again and explain to us how exactly OSDN opening an office in darkest India would be a good thing.

The argument made for outsourcing to India or China is that you can usually get access to a better class of programmer there than at home. And in fact a lot of stuff is now very well made in India and China. The issues with tech support may be more due to Dell, HP etc going for the lowest bidder and using untrained personnel. After all, most companies view tech support exclusively as a tech center.

Last not least, I believe parent may have forgotten that the Linux kernel came from some forlorn country that most US schoolchildren couldn't find on a map. And was written by a member of the swedish minority there, people who get are viewed by the locals with the same benvolence extended to puerto-ricans in the US.

Yipee

[beforewisdom]

Yipee, offshoring comes to the open source movement