Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 15, 2015 @12:28PM from the getting-out-there dept.

lpress writes In an effort to support Cuba's nascent private sector, the Treasury Department announced on Friday that Americans can now import goods and services produced by "independent Cuban entrepreneurs." Will the Cuban government allow that? Cuba is a communist nation, but they have a list of 201 job categories in which self-employment is permitted. Most of those jobs are goofy things like magician and pedal-taxi driver, but one is not – computer programmer. Will the Castro regime let private individuals and organizations export software and software services to the United States and the rest of the world?

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Re:Great for Cuba by sg_oneill · 2015-02-15 12:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

$60,000 is $28 US an hour salary. Here in Australia thats what we pay kids shifting boxes in supermarkets. As a programmer I wouldn't get out of bed for a wage that low.
Trust me, if your country is uncompetitive, its not wages.

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Re:You hit the nail on the head... by ganjadude · 2015-02-15 20:52 · Score: 3, Interesting

Pointing out that man cuban people in miami speak spanish...which is true... is now ill informed and racist...really??? Is that what things have come to? Truth is racist?

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