How India is saving capitalism [salon.com article]

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:33:39 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
Subject: How India is saving capitalism [salon.com article]


http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/01/collabnet/print.html

> How India is saving capitalism For one Silicon Valley company, hiring 
> Indian programmers wasn't about greed, it was about survival. A special 
> report from Chennai, globalization's ground zero.
> Editor's note: This is the first of a series of reports on the offshoring 
> of white-collar jobs, reported on location in India.
> By Katharine Mieszkowski
> April 1, 2004  |  CHENNAI, India -- In an auditorium on the Chennai campus 
> of the Indian Institute of Technology, Brian Behlendorf is stumping before 
> 200 engineering students. The pony-tailed founder and CTO of the Silicon 
> Valley start-up CollabNet is here, ostensibly, to talk about open-source 
> software. The event has been organized by the Indian Linux Users 
> Group-Chennai;

[...]

> "Outsourcing is a sensitive topic in the U.S. for political reasons," 
> Behlendorf says. "But the open-source community has been doing outsourcing 
> since the beginning." Programs like Apache and Linux and many others, he 
> argues, were developed by thousands of volunteers from around the globe -- 
> an example of massively outsourced labor. In a sense, the move by Western 
> corporations to outsource programming operations to developing nations 
> isn't just about cutting costs, it's about adopting a new software 
> development model.

[...]

and about the audience -

> The men, who make up the majority, are dressed in button-down oxfords and 
> belted khakis, the women in flowing salwar kameez. There's only a 
> smattering of geeky T-shirts: "2001 Welcome to Linux: It's now safe to 
> turn on your computer," reads one.

[I was the guy wearing that t-shirt, as it happens - it was designed by my 
friends at ILUG Hyderabad - http://www.ilug-hyd.org.in - for a 10th 
anniversary of linux party in 2001]

        srs


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