Re: Urgent Requirement for Linux Developers!
From: Josef Moellers (josef.moellers_at_fujitsu-siemens.com)
Date: 06/01/05
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:13:55 +0200
phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.development.system Arun Prasad Velu <arun_linux@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> | http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/U.S.+slips+lower+in+coding+contest/2100-1022_3-5659116.html
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> The fact remains that Indian programmers are cheaper. The reason is
> not based on the quality of the work, but rather, on the economics of
> the country.
>
> The results do not mean that Americans are not as good at programming.
> They just mean that programming is no longer good enough for Americans.
> Americans don't like cheap grunt work that gets no respect from their
> employers. So they seek other career paths instead of computer science.
> So there are simply fewer Americans to go compete in these contests.
I miss the smilies or irony-indicators here.
I sincerely doubt that it is the employees that reject programming work.
Rather, a worker in a developing country earns only a fraction of what a
worker in a developed country earns and needs to earn in order to pay
for the expensive goods (s)he needs (and wants, see below) for a living.
If a worker in a developing country costs 10% of what a worker in a
developed country costs (environmental issues, working environment,
competition on the market for work), it pays to hire several of the
former to replace one of the latter, raising the earnings of the
employer, making the shareholders happy, keeping the CEO in office and
earning him an extra million or two as a bonus fee.
OTOH, people (employees) don't like to pay lots of money for the goods
they want, so buying a product produced cheaply in a developing country
is "cool" (there's a commercial slogan here in Germay "Geiz ist geil")
and allows them to buy it early (or buy it at all). Why wait ten years
or more to be able to buy a product you produce yourself while it may
only take 5 years to buy a similar product produced in a developing country?
> Far more respect in development, programming, or coding, can be gotten
> by doing free open source projects, than in working in a cubicle farm.
But the latter pays for my lunch (and that of my wife and my children),
while the former maybe earns me a beer or two at the next open source
conference.
My personal 2ct,
Josef
-- Josef Möllers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC) If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize -- T. Pratchett
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