| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Boycott Tech Forums <boycotttechforums(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Grass Root Protectionism |
| Date: | 2009-02-08 06:50:02 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10902072250l7881f9d9if799b43a58602e40@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Boycott Tech Forums
<boycotttechforums(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> I am a Sr. Software Engineer in USA who (like many others) have been
> unfairly treated with offshore software engineers who have the audacity to
> take our jobs, yet ask (mostly) American engineers to help them with their
> technical challenges via Technical Forums (like this one).
>
> One solution is a bit of Grass Root Protectionism by boycotting technical
> forums. Perhaps if it takes an offshore engineer 2 hours to solve a problem,
> then the employer would see the real cost implication.
>
> I encourage American engineers who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to
> develop their skills not to give it away so freely.
Without foreign engineers working on pgsql it wouldn't be nearly as
far along as it is today.
I live and work in America, but I am not about to sign on to this shit.
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