-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 14:27 +0800, Jonathan Ervine wrote:
On Thursday 17 January 2008 00:36:17 Billie Walsh wrote:
Philipp Thomas wrote:
€30000/year would barely get you a junior programmer here (if at all). If he's got a CS degree, you'd have to raise that significantly. And $ is € is ~ $ 1.5
Hell, If I could do programming at home in my jammies for $30,000 a year I would jump on it. I worked my butt off for a lot less than that.
Meh - supply and demand. Market economics. Call it what you will. The key phrase you use is, 'If I could'. Philipp is correct. You'd struggle to get a junior programmer for $20K pa and you wouldn't hold onto them on that wage for long. I suppose the logical conclusion would be to outsource to India or another outsourcing location.
Actually, Novell did that. Last year they fired something like 200 people in the USA and I guess they hired some in the "far east".
I think that just about sums up (pun intended) the futility of an openSUSE LTS edition.
Dunno... I just hope they don't outsource it, I like the chaps that are at SuSE right now. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHjy4YtTMYHG2NR9URAhCtAKCBpE9nFOj8pAzRHEdd1AILb0XAqACfa9Lz qOwQyINnWTAeEVlQ0amPMBg= =T/6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----