Re: Support of open-source software by business

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your reading is the same as mine.  Nothing about their plight.  Just that
their situation was a natural part of progress.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:57:28PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >I don't know how we switched from open source to outsourcing, but I find
> >the concern about outsourcing quite interesting.  For decades,
> >manufacturing workers suffered the brunt of outsourcing.    I saw little
> >interest in the media regarding the plight of these workers.  Now that
> >better educated, more skilled workers are vulnerable, the subject is
> >becoming popular.
>
> Is that true? There were plenty of stories about the Rust Belt in the
> early 1980s, and even in the early 1990s. But job loss was presented
> as a fact of nature, about which we could do nothing - except go to
> college and learn computers. But now the people who did the "right"
> thing are taking hits too.
>
> Doug

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