software dumping

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

requested it be non-attributed...


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Heard an NPR newsbyte on the GATT talks and possible changes to the
dumping rules.  Has anyone considered the moral equivalent of dumping
in the software industry?  Some software developers  are now moving to
do devlopment offshore to low-labor-cost high-education areas -- India,
Taiwan, and the former eastern block.  Quatro, done in Hungary, is one
example.  Paragraph, the handwriting recognizer for the Newton, was
done in Russia, is another.  The primary manufacturing cost of software
is the front-end intellectual effort to create it;  if it is manufactured
offshore and then sold in the US at under the amortized cost to develop
it here, does this not constitute dumping?"


Just a thought.