Re: Support of open-source software by business

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

ravi wrote:

> what is interesting (at least to me, because i am "in the space") is
> that the high-paying privileged jobs in IT (the ones that ivy league
> educated "liberal" white men filled) are being outsourced to india or
> elsewhere, and some of the whining from these "liberals" sounds quite
> inconsistent. that perception (of mine) might be correct and
> uninteresting, yet insignificant. but perhaps not... being higher up in
> the food chain, the influence [of those now affected] must be
> exponentially larger than that of the blue collar workers. further,
> would it be true that this segment is a swing voter group (that cannot
> be swayed using some other means such as appeals to racism or nationalism)?

Gartner says 1 in 10 IT jobs may be outsourced overseas. According to
the BLS, there are about 3 million workers in the information sector
(and that includes old-line stuff like book publishing). So I wonder
how big an electoral factor they'll be.

Doug