Re: Support of open-source software by business

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 09:14:02 (-0500) Bill Lear writes:
>On Monday, July 28, 2003 at 09:58:39 (-0400) Anders Schneiderman writes:
>>...
>>I think where the issue of lowering labor costs is going to become a big issue is in the new surge of outsourcing.  Open source development projects have gotten very good at having volunteers from around the globe working together.  In other words, they've figured out the processes and software infrastructure that make it much easier to use Java programmers in India, who get paid a fifth of what they do in the U.S.
>
>This is exactly what I had in mind.  Thanks for the info.

I just found an article on Counterpunch by Standard Schaefer that
deals with this topic:

    http://www.counterpunch.org/schaefer07262003.html


Bill