[ Thanks to Doug Chick for
this link. ]
“As computer jobs have been diluted in the U.S. with lay-offs
and being sent away to other countries, the implementation of Linux
has hardly slowed down. Linux, originally of foreign origins, is
quickly becoming the operating system to keep jobs in America.“In the 80s and mid-90s, it was computer people that made
Netware the dominant server operating system, and it was also
computer people that overturned the Netware operating system with
NT because Microsoft offered a cheaper alternative, promising
higher wages for all those that became MCSEs. At the very first
sign of economic decline, these same people were the first
sacrificed and lost their jobs to cheaper wages and alternative
methods of outsourcing. Monopolizing on the fears of corporate
America, many companies like Microsoft began to market their new
product line on the premise that purchasing their software will
allow you to reduce your IT department even further. Or at least
that’s the impression that is given from the Windows 2003
commercials…”