I could not have said it better, I commend the parent for his eloquent response. I get very offended by many comments everytime there is a new post on slashot regarding outsourcing, or migrant workers, or China or anything related to the third world.
I understand how you folks feel threatened by the prospect of having your jobs taken away by foreigners. But noone ever complained when Bangeladeshi kids were wroking in sweatshops making sports shoes for Americans but now that the tables have turned everyone is pissing their pants. What hypocricy. when youre exploiting foreign countries, globalization is fine and dandy, but when they start taking your [half decent]jobs you go on racist rants. Outsourcing is another side of globalization, live with it.
Poor code...
I understand your logic regarding the breakdown of communication since most indian (or whatever) programmers are probably not good english speakers and are not familiar with the office culture here. But why would you think american programmers are better coders than the ones in india?
1- Microsoft is not an enemy of FOSS
2- Somehow Daniel planned to go bankrupt since he started a community-based distro that wasnt suppose to make money
Am i the only one who feels embaressed about this?
What kind of message is this going to send? "The open source business model is so crap that they loose their leaders to their sworn enemy, M$"
I realized he did that because he was broke, but thats the problem, Gentoo is one of the most popular distros, why is its founder broke?! this makes me re-think the whole opensource thing, I mean I love my Linux as much as the next geek, but which one of can realistically make a living out of FOSS?
P.S. no more star war analogies please
John
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I could not have said it better, I commend the parent for his eloquent response. I get very offended by many comments everytime there is a new post on slashot regarding outsourcing, or migrant workers, or China or anything related to the third world.
I understand how you folks feel threatened by the prospect of having your jobs taken away by foreigners. But noone ever complained when Bangeladeshi kids were wroking in sweatshops making sports shoes for Americans but now that the tables have turned everyone is pissing their pants. What hypocricy. when youre exploiting foreign countries, globalization is fine and dandy, but when they start taking your [half decent]jobs you go on racist rants. Outsourcing is another side of globalization, live with it.
Poor code...
I understand your logic regarding the breakdown of communication since most indian (or whatever) programmers are probably not good english speakers and are not familiar with the office culture here. But why would you think american programmers are better coders than the ones in india?
Let me get this, you have implied two things:
1- Microsoft is not an enemy of FOSS
2- Somehow Daniel planned to go bankrupt since he started a community-based distro that wasnt suppose to make money
ok, i get it now, my bad
John
Am i the only one who feels embaressed about this? What kind of message is this going to send? "The open source business model is so crap that they loose their leaders to their sworn enemy, M$" I realized he did that because he was broke, but thats the problem, Gentoo is one of the most popular distros, why is its founder broke?! this makes me re-think the whole opensource thing, I mean I love my Linux as much as the next geek, but which one of can realistically make a living out of FOSS? P.S. no more star war analogies please John