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Tech bosses defend overseas hiring.
San Francisco Chronichle ^
| 1/8/04
| Carolyn Lochhead
Posted on 01/08/2004 10:06:59 AM PST by rightisright
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Washington -- Two leading Silicon Valley chief executives, reacting Wednesday to criticism they've shipped too many high-tech jobs overseas, defended hiring workers in India and China and warned that the United States and particularly California were in danger of losing their competitive edge to the Far East.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Technical
KEYWORDS: corporatelosers; outsourcing; siliconvalley
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To: rightisright
Fiorina warned against the growing protectionist backlash, saying the only alternative to losing jobs overseas was to make a national decision to stay ahead of foreign competitors by improving grade-school education, doubling federal spending on basic research and forming a national broadband policy, as Japan and Korea have done. I've been saying that for years - especially on the broadband policy. Our long-term national interests have been harmed by clinging to 100-year-old communications technology.
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01/08/2004 1:02:15 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: BushCountry
Intel Founder: Andrew S. Grove was born in Budapest, Hungary. Sun Microsystems: Andreas von Bechtolsheim was born in Germany.
Intel and Sun had several founders each. Regardless I would not mind hiring Germans (their wages and working conditions are comparable) or Hungarians. The rest of the companies you mentioned are... nobody. By the way do you know the founders of HP??? With that said, the people who start companies in the US do so for a reason. Nobody but their governments stop them from doing the same in their birth places. Why should they be loyal to that country? And if they have their loyalties mixed, why do we need them here? They can move back entirely for good. In short you have no point.
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01/08/2004 8:51:16 PM PST
by
singsong
(Jesus the Saviour!)
To: George Smiley
Sounds like the Board of HP could find someone else to run the shop for a whole lot less money than they're paying Carly...
That paper doesn't include kickbacks to Chinese companies and government bureaucrats. But that's simply the way it is in China: You either pay the extortion or you don't do business there.
To: Question_Assumptions
Unemployed people either need to be provided for or they will cause substantial social problems (they will emply themselves in theft, etc.).And there seems to be a disturbing trend among our young people that lead many to believe traditional methods of earning a living are no longer worth pursuing, as they are doomed to fail, so they instead pursue fame or crime.
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01/09/2004 1:49:01 AM PST
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I_dmc
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