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Troubleshooters.com: SSSCA’s Bitter Harvest

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 9, 2001

“What is the end result if SSSCA passes? It starts
bleak, and gets bleaker. For starters, Linux is outlawed.

…But that’s not the worst of it.

Linux won’t be banned in Europe, India, Ireland, Australia, or
Mexico. As the United States retreats into technological
inferioriority, those countries will continue their march into the
future. The world’s programmers will learn and progress while
American programmers learn ever more arcane ways to circumvent
Windows glitches. Like never before, the United States will lose
technologists in a brain drain to Europe, India, Ireland, Australia
and Mexico. In 10 years might we be seeing U.S. programmers
captured at the border trying to sneak into Mexico?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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