OT Bill Gates tells senators "we need more foreign programmers to remain competitive"

"John Doe" wrote in message
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"Schrodinger's cat" martin scotland.org wrote:

SNIP

Microsoft doesn't want to pay for education and training of
American programmers. Instead of giving Americans the jobs,
Microsoft would rather import easy to control low-wage
programmers. Since Americans are under strict intellectual
property law, they do however have to pay to maintain Microsoft's
empire. On the other hand, many other countries have no
intellectual property law or don't enforce it, so they get
Windows for free. The easy to control imported programmer sends
much of his Microsoft money home to where his countrymen don't
even pay for Windows.

That can't be good for our economy. There's something very wrong
about the New World order especially as it relates to
intellectual property.

Unfortunately, a lot of people in Europe (not me) have the
impression that most Americans are ill-educated, pampered and most
of all insular, insofar as they find it difficult to look outside
of their own state or country and see their place in something
much wider (the world).

"I held off mentioning they were French, but it had to be said!"
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Your post does much to reinforce that unfair stereotyping.

In other words "I don't have a counter argument, so I use the oldest
lamest argument known to man."

Of course you like the idea of being paid for helping to produce the
products you pirate. The more drain you put on our intellectual
property, the more those corporate executives will scream for your
cheap foreign labor.

I dont pirate software. I buy it. I have a sneaking suspicion that my labour
doesn't come any cheaper than yours. You mustn't fall into the trap of
thinking that everyone outside of the USA has the need or inclination to
pitch up there.

The USA does not have a monopoly on intellectual property or copyright. This
is an issue which a number of more developed countries are grappling with.

You bang on about "Johnny foreigner" pirating software and in virtually the
same paragraph you criticise MS for selling cheaper versions of Windows in
poor regions of the world. MS are actually fighting the piracy in a sensible
way - why pirate the software when you can afford to buy a legitimate copy?


Again, it's just bad for our economy. Letting us do the heavy
intellectual property lifting while you sit around sucking it dry
might be good for your economy in the long-run though.

Bottom line is that Microsoft make massive profits doing business the way
they want to. That's why Bill Gates is massively successful and er, you are
not. He's much cleverer than you are.

But answer one question. Why are you cutting and pasting the headers from
other posters into your replies? Most of us know how to look at a header
anyway. Frankly, things like that and your redneck ecomomic theories do you
no favours.

Regards

Martin