>If you doubt that quality offshore outsourcing can be done, may I suggest opening up whatever computer you used to compose your last message, and check the country of origin of its components.

It would seem you care more for the Sprint Corp. bottom line than for the hundreds of people facing redundancy.

Your comparison of the hardware inside a PC and outsourcing software development is specious. Robots in India, Taiwan, etc. differ little from those within the U.S.

Hard Evidence – There are some areas of life where once you have the ‘hard evidence’ it is too late to do anything meaningful. For example Weapons of Mass Destruction – the absence of hard evidence did not seem to be a deterrent for the Bush Administration and how about child abuse, when you have the corpse in your hand, how does the hard evidence help you? Personally I think you can take your hard evidence and stuff it “where the sun don’t shine” < G >