[ale] OT: what about the free and open work market?

[Dan Newcombe]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jim Philips wrote:
> Freshly graduated programmers in Romania are getting $6500 a year! I
> know that companies will seek out the cheapest labor, but it's amazing
> how fast this market is whipsawing around.

Wasn't there a dilbert about this?  They outsourced something to Elbonia
who outsourced it to someone who outsourced it and eventually Dilberts
company got the low bid on what they had originally outsourced.