I agree, outsourcing your core business is a bad idea across the board. I see big business in the U.S. suffering in the long term due to outsourcing to India, China and Mexico. It is a short term fix, that sacrifices your future.
Typically I see this short sighted thinking with companies run by accountants and politician types. And remember.... accountants never start companies, they are just there to insure a slow painful death.
Outsourcing small contained chunks of development is ok from my experience if you are concerned that you can not support more full time employees.
However not keeping in-house expertise for your core business is foolish and short sighted on so many levels. Not having consistent development flow with permanent employees will also effect the quality as well. Products will start looking like IBM's Lotus Notes, a mosh pit of inconsistent crap piled on top of crap.
Do your companies future a big favour and hire some permanent employees (good ones) to develop your core business and core architecture, and if you need to, outsource contained components that you can easily spec. and support/fix later.
The irony is that the Indian people I know are by far the worst for downloading pirated movies. Many I know never pay for movies and end up watching pirated versions long before they even hit the theaters.
I would comfortably assume (without hard facts, but based on the sample size I have dealt with) that India is one of the biggest pirate participants.
If the Indian government manages to put a stop to internet piracy, I believe their own people will literally have a cow, lol. (sorry couldn't resist the pun)
I don't live in the U.S. I live in the Vancouver area next to Surrey, which is a huge East Indian community. It is not called Surrey-Lanka for nothing;-)
If my understanding of the Indian political mindset is correct (i.e. Ferengi rules of acquisition ) the only reason they are proposing this idea is that there must be some profit in it for the people involved.
A good example of why people need anonymity on the internet happened to me yesterday.
Some person in Cypress tried to rack up my credit card, after I made an online purchase the day before. Whether it was coincidence or a leak in security, my credit card information was in the hands of the wrong people. Thankfully I just had to cancel the card and they couriered a new one to me the next day.
But this is just a small example of why people need internet security.
If you look at internationalization for business (which I firmly believe we should be keeping jobs within Canada/U.S. not shipping them overseas) companies need VPN/security etc for many reasons to share data which in many cases would be a business disaster if it was public for the competition to see.
If the FBI truly believe people no longer have a right to privacy you only have 2 choices:
1) rise up fast and nip this paranoid power mongering in the bud before it becomes irreversible.
2) prepare and accept to be dominated by authority with zero human rights just like Communist China. (which is the mentality I thought the U.S. was fighting against ??? hmmm)
We are a tech company that is now driven by accountants, which is pretty much a fail situation over the long haul.
No accountant is going to have a chance to successfully understand and run a tech company with a "learn tech in 5mins for dummies" book, lol. If for some bizarre reason the direction of the company is dictated by an accountant type, the only chance as slim as it is, is for them to trust the tech people, good luck on that, lol.
In the Tech industry I have seen viable, innovative companies bought out by huge accountant driven corporations that eventually kill off the reasons why the original business was so attractive in the first place.
Accountant run corporations are destroying innovation and "real" profitability in my opinion. Accountants only think 1 or 2 quarters ahead, they have no vision for innovation, they spout the words but have no idea how to implement.
We need the huge corporations to sell off the smaller pieces and let people get back to doing what they do without a pile of useless corporate overhead, sucking the life out of a business. Tech companies need to be run by people that actually understand what they are trying to produce. Accountants need to go back to the "speak when spoken to" role.
If I only got my news from Slashdot every day, I'd probably have an alarmist worldview too, yet in spite of your dire hypotheticals, the world's technology is totally amazing right now and better than ever.
Slashdot posts so many patent stories because it generates pageviews. Always gotta have something for people to raise their fists over.
If you have been a developer for more than 10 years or so at different companies, you would easily understand how patent lawsuits are killing innovation at an ever increasing rate. It has become more and more difficult for the "little guy" to have a successful tech start up, particularly if it involves hardware.
Lawyers and Accountants that end up running tech companies KILL innovation. The recent Patent Law changes are just a cop out to make it easier for the courts, it has nothing to do with fair, or encouraging innovation.
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I agree, outsourcing your core business is a bad idea across the board. I see big business in the U.S. suffering in the long term due to outsourcing to India, China and Mexico. It is a short term fix, that sacrifices your future. Typically I see this short sighted thinking with companies run by accountants and politician types. And remember.... accountants never start companies, they are just there to insure a slow painful death. Outsourcing small contained chunks of development is ok from my experience if you are concerned that you can not support more full time employees. However not keeping in-house expertise for your core business is foolish and short sighted on so many levels. Not having consistent development flow with permanent employees will also effect the quality as well. Products will start looking like IBM's Lotus Notes, a mosh pit of inconsistent crap piled on top of crap. Do your companies future a big favour and hire some permanent employees (good ones) to develop your core business and core architecture, and if you need to, outsource contained components that you can easily spec. and support/fix later.
The irony is that the Indian people I know are by far the worst for downloading pirated movies. Many I know never pay for movies and end up watching pirated versions long before they even hit the theaters. I would comfortably assume (without hard facts, but based on the sample size I have dealt with) that India is one of the biggest pirate participants. If the Indian government manages to put a stop to internet piracy, I believe their own people will literally have a cow, lol. (sorry couldn't resist the pun) I don't live in the U.S. I live in the Vancouver area next to Surrey, which is a huge East Indian community. It is not called Surrey-Lanka for nothing ;-)
If my understanding of the Indian political mindset is correct (i.e. Ferengi rules of acquisition ) the only reason they are proposing this idea is that there must be some profit in it for the people involved.
A good example of why people need anonymity on the internet happened to me yesterday. Some person in Cypress tried to rack up my credit card, after I made an online purchase the day before. Whether it was coincidence or a leak in security, my credit card information was in the hands of the wrong people. Thankfully I just had to cancel the card and they couriered a new one to me the next day. But this is just a small example of why people need internet security. If you look at internationalization for business (which I firmly believe we should be keeping jobs within Canada/U.S. not shipping them overseas) companies need VPN/security etc for many reasons to share data which in many cases would be a business disaster if it was public for the competition to see. If the FBI truly believe people no longer have a right to privacy you only have 2 choices: 1) rise up fast and nip this paranoid power mongering in the bud before it becomes irreversible. 2) prepare and accept to be dominated by authority with zero human rights just like Communist China. (which is the mentality I thought the U.S. was fighting against ??? hmmm)
We are a tech company that is now driven by accountants, which is pretty much a fail situation over the long haul. No accountant is going to have a chance to successfully understand and run a tech company with a "learn tech in 5mins for dummies" book, lol. If for some bizarre reason the direction of the company is dictated by an accountant type, the only chance as slim as it is, is for them to trust the tech people, good luck on that, lol.
In the Tech industry I have seen viable, innovative companies bought out by huge accountant driven corporations that eventually kill off the reasons why the original business was so attractive in the first place. Accountant run corporations are destroying innovation and "real" profitability in my opinion. Accountants only think 1 or 2 quarters ahead, they have no vision for innovation, they spout the words but have no idea how to implement. We need the huge corporations to sell off the smaller pieces and let people get back to doing what they do without a pile of useless corporate overhead, sucking the life out of a business. Tech companies need to be run by people that actually understand what they are trying to produce. Accountants need to go back to the "speak when spoken to" role.
If I only got my news from Slashdot every day, I'd probably have an alarmist worldview too, yet in spite of your dire hypotheticals, the world's technology is totally amazing right now and better than ever.
Slashdot posts so many patent stories because it generates pageviews. Always gotta have something for people to raise their fists over.
If you have been a developer for more than 10 years or so at different companies, you would easily understand how patent lawsuits are killing innovation at an ever increasing rate. It has become more and more difficult for the "little guy" to have a successful tech start up, particularly if it involves hardware. Lawyers and Accountants that end up running tech companies KILL innovation. The recent Patent Law changes are just a cop out to make it easier for the courts, it has nothing to do with fair, or encouraging innovation.