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Hi Joseph, On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:19, Joseph wrote: > Your perception of Americans I think is very skewed by the media. > You obviously did not read my post and wanted take a cheap shot. Although this is hardly the place to discuss this, I never said Americans, I said "we". I'm Dutch, and we've got an equal amount of people whining about the same problems, thinking we'll be invaded and robbed from jobs because Poland joins the EU and Philips and CMG out-source to China and India. It's the same everywhere in the Western world, and my message was not intended as an attack on either an invidual or one country and it's people. I realise this is very generalising, but the majority of the people in all our countries couldn't care less if we rob the rest of the world blind, until there's a slight possibility they might actually be affected themselves. > Hmmm. I had no idea there were only 2 networking companies, 1 > database and 1 OS. =) With the rich competitive nature of the market I > will continue to support companies which conform to a baseline of > ethical business practice for all workers worldwide. I would like to do the same, but the fact of the matter is that in some key areas there's not much choice, especially when it comes to hardware...unless I've missed something I haven't seen an Open-Source carrier-grade routing system that can rival C or J's, and just about any commercial hardware manufacturer in the world has a production plant in one third world country or another, or at least uses loads of low-priced parts (memory, IC's etc.) that are manufactured in those same places. There's no escaping it if you're working in networking and IT. Kind regards, -- --- Erik Haagsman Network Architect We Dare BV tel: +31(0)10 7507008 fax:+31(0)10 7507005 http://www.we-dare.nl
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