Although many in the United States are pissed off over jobs going abroad, any businessperson would make the same decisions in order to save their company.
Some business have actually kept their business in the US even though they were losing money for the sake of keeping it USA, however, this country (the US) has become so expensive to operate in, and unless you're some mega-conglomerate, you're not going to see any form of tax breaks, nor relief to help your business succeed.
It's simple economics. Now what if some of these corporations offered relocation to existing employees, then what? Would some programmer cry foul over moving to India and making $25k (US) per year over there. $25k (US) in India would have you living like a kind.
It's possible that corporations could offer this, but knowing the attitudes of some programmers, this would be a slap in the face, so everyone complains. If it were your money what would you do throw it away for the sake of keeping face, or moving elsewhere to make money which is what you originally set out to do? Common sense dictates (or at least should) that businesses, no matter how dirty it sounds, are for making profit.
I've been using Free for years as well as Open and Linux, and one thing I want to point out without sounding trollish is that FreeBSD, and certain distributions of Linux (right now using Slack9) have become extremely bloated.
When I order my Free cd's I never get passed using only one cd, and I know there has to be others who've done (and are doing) the same.
I originally switched from Mac (System 7.0) to Windows, then to Linux, then to BSD (Open) because at the time it was lightweight. Enough to accomplish whatever I wanted to do without having to wait for $X amount of uneccessary 's/garbage/binaries/g' to load.
After recently tinkering with an older machine I have here (PII 233) I decided to whip out Free and install it to tinker with it as a bastion host or something similar. However, after installing Free (4.1 at that) the machine was super slow (mind you it has 512mb of RAM), and I felt as if Free and Linux (which did the same after I fdisk'd BSD to try Slack on the machine), have simply gone the route of the `other` bloatware bandit known as XP.
4 years is not much in fact I know someone (no bs) who had an ircbot idle for four years. Reason why he didn't want to take the machine down was because he had an extremely old kernel and didn't want to go crazy with make mrproper *etc* etc* etc* only to find that his machine was a dinosaur.
This was around Y2K mind you and from what I remember he finally took the machine down in first quarter 2001 because he was moving, and his colo was going the route of fscked*company.
As for the dropping packets portion, that is somewhat impressive as a side note, however, what was the server's task, I mean think about it, if it was only getting lets say 1,000 connects per day (which is light) there should be no reason why it would drop packets.
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Some business have actually kept their business in the US even though they were losing money for the sake of keeping it USA, however, this country (the US) has become so expensive to operate in, and unless you're some mega-conglomerate, you're not going to see any form of tax breaks, nor relief to help your business succeed.
It's simple economics. Now what if some of these corporations offered relocation to existing employees, then what? Would some programmer cry foul over moving to India and making $25k (US) per year over there. $25k (US) in India would have you living like a kind.
It's possible that corporations could offer this, but knowing the attitudes of some programmers, this would be a slap in the face, so everyone complains. If it were your money what would you do throw it away for the sake of keeping face, or moving elsewhere to make money which is what you originally set out to do? Common sense dictates (or at least should) that businesses, no matter how dirty it sounds, are for making profit.
I've been using Free for years as well as Open and Linux, and one thing I want to point out without sounding trollish is that FreeBSD, and certain distributions of Linux (right now using Slack9) have become extremely bloated.
When I order my Free cd's I never get passed using only one cd, and I know there has to be others who've done (and are doing) the same.
I originally switched from Mac (System 7.0) to Windows, then to Linux, then to BSD (Open) because at the time it was lightweight. Enough to accomplish whatever I wanted to do without having to wait for $X amount of uneccessary 's/garbage/binaries/g' to load.
After recently tinkering with an older machine I have here (PII 233) I decided to whip out Free and install it to tinker with it as a bastion host or something similar. However, after installing Free (4.1 at that) the machine was super slow (mind you it has 512mb of RAM), and I felt as if Free and Linux (which did the same after I fdisk'd BSD to try Slack on the machine), have simply gone the route of the `other` bloatware bandit known as XP.
4 years is not much in fact I know someone (no bs) who had an ircbot idle for four years. Reason why he didn't want to take the machine down was because he had an extremely old kernel and didn't want to go crazy with make mrproper *etc* etc* etc* only to find that his machine was a dinosaur. This was around Y2K mind you and from what I remember he finally took the machine down in first quarter 2001 because he was moving, and his colo was going the route of fscked*company. As for the dropping packets portion, that is somewhat impressive as a side note, however, what was the server's task, I mean think about it, if it was only getting lets say 1,000 connects per day (which is light) there should be no reason why it would drop packets.