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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Interesting article on outsourcing and Americans employed by foreign firms
within the US:

<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/8337927.htm?1c>


T O N Y  S P E N C E R
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf 
> Of Kurt Schlatzer
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: 'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'
> Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Wired: outsourcing is good
> 
> Alan MacHett wrote:
> > Whose side are these people on!??
> 
> Ben Franklin's.
>  
> > "But the ITAA also predicts that outsourcing will create 317,000 
> > entirely new jobs in the US over the next four years as a result of 
> > cost savings. And outsourcing generated 90,000 jobs in
> > 2003 alone."
> 
> I too predict a rise in jobs here in the US from outsourcing. 
> Someone will have to clean up all the crappy code generated 
> by a bunch of sweatshop coders with no sense of investment or 
> innovation related to their projects.
> 
> Speaking of innovation, where can it exist in an outsourced 
> project? Why should a sweatshop even bother to suggest 
> product enhancements or the creation of new, more efficient 
> or more advanced technologies within the applications they 
> are banging out? Churn and burn. IT and business innovation 
> will suffer as a whole from this "exercise" ultimately 
> resulting in higher cost or higher loss in the future.
> 
> Kurt Schlatzer
> www.kurtschlatzer.com
> 
> 
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