Re: interesting

From: Clifford Heath (no_at_spam.please)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:49:50 +1100

John Larkin wrote:
> ...CS or IT educations, which both limits their utility to hacking
> C++ and makes them prime targets for foreign outsourcing.

What an ignorant attitude. The reason that EE is being hit so
much harder than software is that it's worked for 40 years to
make products that don't need support (repair and training) and
indeed most mass-market products aren't even possible to repair.
When you haven't got (and don't need) a support industry, you
lose the seeding ground for your product enterprises.

The same hasn't and won't happen with software, because support
is always going to be needed. Some software can be outsourced,
but there will always be smart local folk who can come up with
a bright product idea and make money out of it without being
immediately undercut by an Asian competitor. That's not to say
that broken software can be "fixed" - look at Windows! - but that
its failings are handled by better support, not by throwing it
away and starting again with a new model.

Clifford Heath.

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