[LINK] Offshoring Australia vs India

[Roger Clarke]

webmaster at ssg.nsw.greens.org.au:
quoting Roger:
>  >  ratbag leftie things
>yeah, like Open Source Software - i'm involved, i've made $0.00 out of
>it directly, but it does help when contracting to have active "street
>cred" in the biz.

Whoa there!  My paper from the other day expressly does *not* 
characterise open source as being 'ratbag leftie'!  (Left maybe, 
ratbag no).

See http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/Bled04.html#Ecs

(I was thinking of some of the more extreme elements of the 
anti-World Economic Forum.  I'm with them in opposing a lot of what 
the wannabe 'world government' is on about;  but some of the 
alternative approaches that get put forward are wildly off-the-beam).


>it'll take active hostility to actually stop us now, we _are_ making
>progress, but the USAFTA could do it, with extra Intellectual Property
>restraints on innovation, so many code-cutters have their fingers, arms
>and legs crossed that it won't happen.

I'm completely with you on that.  If only Vaile would pack up and 
come home, and spend his time working on spin that makes it look like 
a good thing we've deferred the negotiations for a while - Australian 
economy getting ever-stronger, improved bargaining position next 
year, etc., etc.

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