>I suppose that you think that under-cutting the price of US-based developers
>is a good trick. Hey, no problem. We're pretty good at what we do.
>
>But, when I'm talking about the 3rd world I'm talking about India, especially,
>where they can hire software developers for 1/10 of what they pay *you*. Pay
>differences between the US/Bulgaria are nothing in comparison.
While I understand the outsourcing of jobs from the U.S. is a reason for worry to U.S. programmers, we were talking about something completely different.
Our economic situation here is such, that many people here simply can't afford to buy a new computer every few years, even if a new computer "only" costs somewhere between 500 and 800 US$, depending on the configuration.
So, for some company in a developing country, running the latest and greatest Microsoft software may not be feasible, because - apart from the price of purchasing the software - a major hardware upgrade may be required.
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