You are dead right on this. I've seen this a million times before. This is companies lobbying congress with fear, uncertainty, and doubt to force controls on the internet. This is nothing but a scare tactic. Companies and government would like nothing more than to take over the chaotic internet so that they can better monetize it and prevent competition from small players... not to mention eliminating anonymity.
I live in Atlanta Georgia and a lot of people are talking about how this company will be bringing jobs to Atlanta. The truth is that while they will be hiring people, this will result in a NET LOSS for Atlanta and the United States.
The way this works is that Fortune 50 companies in Atlanta like Bell South, Coca-Cola, Delta, etc. have contracts with US based firms and employ US based resources. The movement is now to outsource to India. The problem is that they realize that they have to have someone in the United States to actually talk to the customer and deal with problems. These people will be the business analysts and the technical architects that feed the people off shore. While they say that these companies are creating jobs in the United States, the truth is that most of them will be landed resources also from India under H1B visa.
The result of this is that the 50 people in Atlanta that were working in IT are now replaced by 40 off shore people, 5 landed people in Atlanta, and 5 local people. I'm not judging whether it's good or bad or right or wrong, I'm just clarifying what is really happening because most people are way off on this one.
A great accomplishment. I've been using the product for a couple of years now and really love it. My wife's entire business is based on Open Office as well. Thanks for all of the hard work!
I personally know of several companies that already have development centers in India and are planning to move all operations there soon. The average wage for these developers is 20K per year. The problem is that they can live like kings there on 20K.
Nobody in the US can afford to pay for college and raise a family on such a salary. The result will be a complete loss of technical skills from our country (US). At least with textiles, they have to pay to ship it back. There is no cost associated with e-mailing software back to the US. If we do not take action soon, the number of bright young kids going into computer science will plumment and our country will be void of software expertise....
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You are dead right on this. I've seen this a million times before. This is companies lobbying congress with fear, uncertainty, and doubt to force controls on the internet. This is nothing but a scare tactic. Companies and government would like nothing more than to take over the chaotic internet so that they can better monetize it and prevent competition from small players... not to mention eliminating anonymity.
I live in Atlanta Georgia and a lot of people are talking about how this company will be bringing jobs to Atlanta. The truth is that while they will be hiring people, this will result in a NET LOSS for Atlanta and the United States.
The way this works is that Fortune 50 companies in Atlanta like Bell South, Coca-Cola, Delta, etc. have contracts with US based firms and employ US based resources. The movement is now to outsource to India. The problem is that they realize that they have to have someone in the United States to actually talk to the customer and deal with problems. These people will be the business analysts and the technical architects that feed the people off shore. While they say that these companies are creating jobs in the United States, the truth is that most of them will be landed resources also from India under H1B visa.
The result of this is that the 50 people in Atlanta that were working in IT are now replaced by 40 off shore people, 5 landed people in Atlanta, and 5 local people. I'm not judging whether it's good or bad or right or wrong, I'm just clarifying what is really happening because most people are way off on this one.
A great accomplishment. I've been using the product for a couple of years now and really love it. My wife's entire business is based on Open Office as well. Thanks for all of the hard work!
I personally know of several companies that already have development centers in India and are planning to move all operations there soon. The average wage for these developers is 20K per year. The problem is that they can live like kings there on 20K.
Nobody in the US can afford to pay for college and raise a family on such a salary. The result will be a complete loss of technical skills from our country (US). At least with textiles, they have to pay to ship it back. There is no cost associated with e-mailing software back to the US. If we do not take action soon, the number of bright young kids going into computer science will plumment and our country will be void of software expertise....
Michael