Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Boycott Tech Forums > <boycotttechfor...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am a Sr. Software Engineer in USA who (like many others) have been > > unfairly treated with offshore software engineers who have the audacity to > > take our jobs, yet ask (mostly) American engineers to help them with their > > technical challenges via Technical Forums (like this one). > > > > One solution is a bit of Grass Root Protectionism by boycotting technical > > forums. Perhaps if it takes an offshore engineer 2 hours to solve a problem, > > then the employer would see the real cost implication. > > > > I encourage American engineers who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to > > develop their skills not to give it away so freely. > > Without foreign engineers working on pgsql it wouldn't be nearly as > far along as it is today.
It is larger than that. Without non-US developers, Postgres would be less than half what it is today, meaning that US Postgres users need to thank the non-US developers for their work over the past 12 years of community Postgres development. It is US people who are benefitting more from the relationship, not non-US people. This is true of many open source projects. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
