On 29-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gibney, Dave) wrote: > But, a larger amount goes to causes where the computer OS and > software is irrelevant. Malaria, AIDS, vaccines and improved health > around the world have little to do with what computer OS the people who > have no computers use.
The hard ethical question here is to decide whether it's bad to outsource jobs from where we need them to be comfortable - to where others need them to feed their children and to stop slashing and burning our limited rainforests in order to live. Sweat shops save rainforests and feed children. On the other hand, unlike mining (for some reason), when industrialization comes to poor countries, education follows and a generation later people start competing with us techies. Sure we want them to stop starving and to leave the rainforests alone - but only if it means we can stay comfortable doing what we're doing. The solution - to keep developing our skills to stay ahead of them - is a lot of work. Change isn't comfortable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
