Re: Grass Root Protectionism - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Grass Root Protectionism
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Msg-id dcc563d10902072250l7881f9d9if799b43a58602e40@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Grass Root Protectionism  (Boycott Tech Forums <boycotttechforums@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Grass Root Protectionism  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: Grass Root Protectionism  (Michael B Allen <ioplex@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Boycott Tech Forums
<boycotttechforums@yahoo.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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