It seems quite a number of American programmers are getting really paranoid of losing their jobs to overseas places?
Is this a trend? Or a fear? Though, with a huge failure rate reported in http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/project/story/0,108 01,97283,00.html its not surprising people want to fail for less cost somewhere else :-) I think a bit of a shake up in the software industry would be good, it might make people adapt, change, and innovate a lot more. Regards, Keith > -----Original Message----- > From: Stede Troisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2004 10:00 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [XP] An Employee Owned XP Enterprise? > > > Uncle Bob, > > does Objectmentor get hurt if programmers in this country > lose their jobs in mass or can you position yourself internationally? > > Stede > > --- "Robert C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: jhrothjr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > The thing to understand about economics is that if > > you have > > > perfect competition, nobody makes any profits. > > > > I disagree. If you have perfect competition then everybody > makes just > > enough profit to stay alive. Our population and our economy is > > growing. If your business does not grow with it, it will die. > > Profit is an essential > > component of growth, and therefore an essential component > of success. > > > > > Profit is made > > > by exploiting some inequity in the market. > > > > Profit is made by exploiting the difference between value > and cost. > > This may be an inequity, but it is vital to civilization, > Without it > > we'd all still be hunter-gatherers working solely for ourselves. > > > > A heat engine is driven by the inequity an inequity of > temperatures. > > The economic engine is driven by the inequity of value and cost. > > > > And in the interest of full-disclosure: Economic Theory > According to > > Uncle Bob is about as useful as Object Oriented principles > according > > to Margaret Thatcher. > > > > ----- > > Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) | email: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Object Mentor Inc. | blog: > > www.butunclebob.com > > The Agile Transition Experts | web: > > www.objectmentor.com > > 800-338-6716 | > > > > > > > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
