John,
The first quote to which you refer is from John Baird.
The second quote is from me.
I think we agree!
FWIW, tech outsourcing is accelerating very, very quickly- not just in code cutting either. Unlike industry, which requires heavy expensive plant that takes time and effort to replicate offshore, the 3rd world has legions of graduates with PCs, ready to start work immediately.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
