[Search-l] Short interview with Jeremie Miller

[Terry Jones]

Hi John

I really appreciate your presence, persistence, and attitude on this
mailing list (in fact, without you I might already have unsubscribed),
but I find this a bit odd:

>>>>> "John" == John McCormac <jmcc at hackwatch.com> writes:
John> Seth's point about Wikia programming jobs being outsourced to Poland
John> is an important one. I wonder how American programmers feel about
John> having their jobs "Open Sourced" to Poland in the name of Wikia's
John> profit.  Despite all your happy clappy cheer leading Jer, that is a
John> sad betrayal of American programmers by Wikia.

You're talking about positions that are (I gather) not yet filled. It's not
as though a bunch of Americans are happily working for Wikia and are about
to be made redundant by a sudden decision to outsource their jobs to
Poland.  If what I've just written is accurate (I should know more about
Wikia, I guess), then in what sense are those potential positions "their"
jobs? Did investors Bessemer (with offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, and
Shanghai) and Amazon, see a business plan that included hiring people
globally? Do they regard their money as being reserved for the hiring of
Americans? Do they feel betrayed? If they saw such a business plan, and
nevertheless invested, maybe you'd claim that those investors betrayed
American programmers too?

In summary, I don't think those to-be-created jobs belong to Americans
(i.e., are not "their jobs") in any sense, I don't see any betrayal, and I
don't see anything at all sad.

So to me this comment (unlike your others) feels like a bit of a knee-jerk
reaction.

Regards,
Terry