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- From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.032235.18340@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 03:22:35 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Dec22.114010.23265@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, helz@ecn.purdue.edu (R
- andall A Helzerman) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.011646.3918@unvax.union.edu>, pallantj@unvax.union.edu (J
- oseph C. Pallante) writes:
- >
- >|> The day that a couple hundred software writers in Russia or India can
- >|> produce an OS like OS/2.... Is the day that BG becomes humble.
- >
- >My friend have you ever sat in a software class and tried to compete with
- >the best and brightest students from India? I have and let me tell you
- >I have nothing but the highest regard for the kind of talent that
- >India can put together.
-
- Yes and I do just fine thank you. Your place of national origin has little to
- do with your intelligence. I'm sorry about the arrogance, but saying that
- just because someone is from another country means that they are somehow
- better than you, really offends me.
-
- >
- >They've got over 700 _million_ people--it stands to reason that they've got
- >over twice the number of potential great programmers that we do.
-
- Potential is the key word. Potential that will never be reached in the vast
- majority if cases. Think about their culture, most of the people in India
- will not be computer programmers or have any job with similair status. Sure
- they may potentially be a great programmer, but that doesn't mean that they
- will ever get the oppourtunity. Unfortunate but true.
-
- >
- >To think that we can blindly bash our best software companies into the
- >ground and still be number one in software is about the most extreme
- >form of cultural egocentrism than I can imagine. Wake up and smell the
- >coffee!
- >
-
- Ego? This has nothing to do with ego. The goal of this is so that American
- companies (plural) might *better* compete with each other as well as the world
- market. Giving one company an overwhelming dominance in this industry would
- be the most anti competitive thing we could possibly do.
-
- --
- Stacy John Behrens
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- The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they
- serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not
- legitimacy. [Albert Einstein]
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