Offshoring. Why it is not just immoral and unethical. But utterly illegal.

[Deja Q]

http://asia.cnet.com/news/software/0,39037051,39230772,00.htm

Look at the table on the page.

74% of the software India uses is PIRATED.

And a whopping 90% of the software China uses is PIRATED.

Meanwhile, American execs who take our jobs over there whine and rant about unfairness and inequality?!

The gall. What a nerve.

I'm beyond words.

[Pachamama]

1. Don't forget what it really is: ANTI-AMERICAN! n/t

:grr:

[Warpy]

7. The morons in suits aren't going to see that part

until this country gets into the next big war and they're SOL ordering supplies to keep their buisinesses going, the military is SOL getting the electronics they heavily rely on (like gyroscopes) and we're all SOL because this country doesn't make cloth or shoes or consumer electronics or auto repair parts or much of anything else we use from day to day and don't particularly think much about.

[ashmanonar]

2. wow.

i knew software piracy was a legitimate problem, but shit. 90%?

and you have every right to be beyond words. this is PROOF that offshoring is bad for our economy.

[Deja Q]

4. It also proves what ABSOLUTE VERMIN our corporate leaders are.

Wealth for them. Whippin' and backstabbin' for us.

And how dare any one of them or their supporters reads the Bible and proclaims to be a believer. Their ACTIONS are proof they are not what they claim themselves to be.

[Tux]

3. That is why

I use Linux. Plenty of people work on it, most distros never bitch about piracy of OSS, and I will never give money to those greedy software companies until they make good software like Red Hat and Ubuntu, hire mostly Americans, and lower the artificially high prices for software.

[bryant69]

5. That is a pretty stunning figure

I can't believe it!

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[undeterred]

6. No wonder they can save so much money by shipping call centers to

India. I recently interviewed for a position where the whole level one helpdesk was being offshored to India. The position I was interviewing for- well I would be the person they would call back who was physically in the building in case it was something they couldn't handle remotely. I said no thanks.

[Deja Q]

8. Not just call centers...

Programmers, DBAs, graphic designers, cartoon animators, you name it.

It's all pirated en masse over there.

Won't hurt FOX, but it will hurt Adobe. Both of them don't mind if their Americans get hurt or not.

I mean, poor old Microsoft. How many licenses of SQL are stolen because of Asia.

And I wonder why the FBI doesn't go over there and hang 'em all out to dry.

It's ironic. Microsoft offshores as well; so as they design DRM, they're letting thieves to it for slave labor prices.

The whole fuckin' system is unethica, immoral, and illegal.

They're all thieves.

But file sharing is wroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.

Wrong for us.

Good for them.

Traitors.

Filth.

Vermin.

[Cleita]

9. We need a law or laws that makes American companies

who want to do business here keep 60% of their jobs here. Also, retailers like Walmart should carry 60% of their merchandise made in the USA. They need to be incorporated here too, not in the Cayman Islands.

You will have to accept some importing. To not do so will start an underground blackmarketing of the goods. Think about Soviet Russia and American blue jeans bootlegging in Russia back in the sixties.

[Deja Q]

10. Won't happen anytime soon, this law, but I agree.

[annabanana]

11. kick. . . just for the halibut......n/t