Contrary to your belief, a Masters in Engineering in India, from India, even from IIT is considered a disqualification instead of qualification. Generally (not always) those who couldn't find job after Bachelors or didn't complete bachelors from say top 20 institutes go for a Masters. In the Internet age once you've been initiated through a bachelors degree, you can easily learn advance topics on job as and when required.
This doesn't affect internal voice links connecting indian and abroad offices. Also it doesn't affect Yahoo, Skype, MSN etc free service usage by companies or home users. Its like if a VOIP service provider sells a service to anyone in europe they have to pay VAT there, same is true for India but they are not doing it. In India lergest basic telephony and mobile phone providers and Internation Long distance backbone providers are providing VOIP services also. So it not like AT&T lobbying against VOIP services in india, they themselve are VOIP providers.
What about Multinational companies, which destroyed local Indian market.
BPL, Videocon and Onida are few of large brands used to synonymous with Television and Home electronics, now hold miniscule market share. These brands still exist in market, but those small scale manufacturers who were selling at miniscule margins are dead. Skills of workers who were just good in assembling TV by hand with no knowledge of electronics beihnd it, is no longer required. Argument in favour of Sony, LG, Samsung is that they have better product offering at lower prices. Same holds true for Indian Software Engineers.
Think of a scenario when no American company is allowed to sell outside USA. How many Americans will lose their jobs? US can't have selective open market, Where it can sell its products to third world but third world nations are prohibited in selling product and services they are good in.
I don't have a research ot back it up, but in my opinion free trade benefits all. Outsourcing doesn't always transfers Job from USA to India/China but it creates more job. If I was spending $100 on something and now I can do that for $10, my profits will increase by say $200 and I can retain both $100 and $10 employee and still earn higher profits.
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I am in India and just tried accessing both of these.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Hyderabad/10-laptop_proves_to_be_a_damp_squib/articleshow/4072417.cms
Works for me on Ubuntu 8.10 and openSuse 11. Looks like, versions mentioned in release are the minimum versions supported.
Contrary to your belief, a Masters in Engineering in India, from India, even from IIT is considered a disqualification instead of qualification. Generally (not always) those who couldn't find job after Bachelors or didn't complete bachelors from say top 20 institutes go for a Masters.
In the Internet age once you've been initiated through a bachelors degree, you can easily learn advance topics on job as and when required.
This doesn't affect internal voice links connecting indian and abroad offices. Also it doesn't affect Yahoo, Skype, MSN etc free service usage by companies or home users.
Its like if a VOIP service provider sells a service to anyone in europe they have to pay VAT there, same is true for India but they are not doing it. In India lergest basic telephony and mobile phone providers and Internation Long distance backbone providers are providing VOIP services also. So it not like AT&T lobbying against VOIP services in india, they themselve are VOIP providers.
What about Multinational companies, which destroyed local Indian market.
BPL, Videocon and Onida are few of large brands used to synonymous with Television and Home electronics, now hold miniscule market share. These brands still exist in market, but those small scale manufacturers who were selling at miniscule margins are dead. Skills of workers who were just good in assembling TV by hand with no knowledge of electronics beihnd it, is no longer required. Argument in favour of Sony, LG, Samsung is that they have better product offering at lower prices. Same holds true for Indian Software Engineers.
Think of a scenario when no American company is allowed to sell outside USA. How many Americans will lose their jobs? US can't have selective open market, Where it can sell its products to third world but third world nations are prohibited in selling product and services they are good in.
I don't have a research ot back it up, but in my opinion free trade benefits all. Outsourcing doesn't always transfers Job from USA to India/China but it creates more job. If I was spending $100 on something and now I can do that for $10, my profits will increase by say $200 and I can retain both $100 and $10 employee and still earn higher profits.