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Originally posted by harvey
is it me or this is not even remotely related to outsoursing?
GregB, I think your outsourcing paranoia is getting you blind. Despite this specific case doesn't have anything (and I mean ANYTHING, big capitals) with outsourcing, then I understand why you and some other people is concerned with outsourcing. Then, you can do much against it other than find the way to stay in this or move to another work area, it's called capitalism.
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Yes indeed this story has ALOT to do with outsourcing. What lots of people DON'T know is that there are groups like the UN that impose their laws and restrictions and guidelines for foreign business actions. The US also has it's rules and regulations. Yet they're a double edged sword as you can see with what happened with Microsoft.
Now the big question is how enforceable are these guidelines/laws? They're 'blanket' rules that seem to apply to 'some' not 'all'.
In this case it's to the disadvantage of Microsoft because if you look closely they're getting hit hard for the actions of the Chinese govt. So why isn't the UN just as hard if not harder on the Chinese and the U.S. as they are on Microsoft? Because they figure they can get some money outta Microsoft that's why.