I sympathise, as a fellow "American" developer. However, it is rather childlike wishful thinking to purport to stop by force of law that natural motion of capital which is certifiably unstoppable. <br><br>Global economic integration and interdependence ("globalisation") has its pluses and minuses for everyone. To partake of the benefits of modernity, you have to pay to play. You can't have the good without the bad. Developing nations have every bit as many gripes with it as you do. While you complain that jobs are being taken away from American developers and there is downward wage pressure, the developing world complains of their macroeconomic health being subjugated to the whims of some distant investors in faraway lands, there self-sufficiency destroyed by supposedly organic "competitive advantage", IMF-sponsored liberalisation and austerity measures that hurt the people and increase concentration of wealth into few hands, expropriation of land and resources into the hands of foreign conglomerates, etc. It is what it is.<br><br>Regardless, there is no going back. It's like trying to put the milk back into the cow. All you can do is make yourself competitive in global terms. There is still much that you can do that cannot be usefully offshored.<br><br>--<br>Alex Balashov - Principal <br>Evariste Systems LLC <br>235 E Ponce de Leon Ave <br>Suite 106<br>Atlanta, GA 30030 <br>Tel: +1-678-954-0670 <br>Fax: +1-404-961-1892 <br>Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.alexbalashov.com<br><br>"C. Savinovich" <c.savinovich@itntelecom.com> wrote:<br><br><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>>>>><span>Umm, like the amount you paid for your copy of Asterisk and the Linux <br> server it runs on?<span id="GD__CURSOR"> </span></span></div><div><br></div><div>First, you are missing the point.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, you guys take away jobs from American developers. If there was a president in the USA who would make it illegal for companies to hire overseas developers, we would have hundreds of thousands of people employed here, and don't say that products will be more expensive, they wouldn't. Microsoft and Google have way too much money in the bank, which they could share if they didn't hire overseas programmers</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Christian Savinovich</div><div><strong><em>VoIP & Telephony Consultant</em></strong></div><div>646-982-3572</div><div> </div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Rate sheet "normalization"<br>
From: "Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)" <<a href="mailto:raju@linux-delhi.org">raju@linux-delhi.org</a>><br>
Date: Wed, March 28, 2012 2:13 pm<br>
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On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012, C. Savinovich wrote:<br>
> I really don't think it is fair for anyone to give out such work for<br>
> free. Unfortunately, many people are used to asking for free<br>
> software solutions for all their problems. Whatever happened to<br>
> paying for someone else's time and effort?<br>
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Umm, like the amount you paid for your copy of Asterisk and the Linux <br>
server it runs on?<br>
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