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[JoeHill]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:43:03 -0500
bob findlay <fcsoft-rxKNY4w4koG3ikBYyZqyVg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> By some measures the software development industry has shrunk by 60% in less 
> than 3 years.   Yes one could argue that there was a huge runup for the Y2K 
> fraud and the dotcom hysteria.     Unfortunately, the "correction" has gone 
> way beyond that in my opinion.    In my network of developers alone we 
> currently have about 95% unemployment rate.   One promising 30 some developer 
> is training to be a bus driver because he simply can't find employment.    
> Young kids are shunning programming as a career option.

...but is this because the *demand* for software developers has gone down
overall, or is it because so many corporations try to benefit their bottom line
in the short term by outsourcing development to countries that don't pay too
much attention to international laws regarding exploitation of labour?
 
> Yes plenty of people are still employed in IT,   but it is a far cry from 
> being able to do PHP or JAVA webprogramming to being a kernel developer or an 
> embedded Linux developer.
> 
> My point was simply that if we don't find a way to get the young kids back 
> into software development as a career option then pretty soon we won't have 
> the skills base to make sizable contributions to the open source code base 
> from this country anyway.

No argument there.

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