From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Boycott Tech Forums <boycotttechforums(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Grass Root Protectionism |
Date: | 2009-02-08 13:49:42 |
Message-ID: | 200902081349.n18Dngx10813@momjian.us |
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> 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.
It is larger than that. Without non-US developers, Postgres would be
less than half what it is today, meaning that US Postgres users need to
thank the non-US developers for their work over the past 12 years of
community Postgres development. It is US people who are benefitting
more from the relationship, not non-US people.
This is true of many open source projects.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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