One of my favorite authors and bloggers is Bob Lewis — as evidenced by the fact that he is on my very short blogroll, off to the right of this post. He has had some things to say recently about off-shoring, a topic which I have tackled as part of the larger issue of what I call the cheapening of software development. I chose to focus on freelance exchanges on the web, but the truth is, by far the primary reason that prices have been driven so low in these exchanges is because of offshore labor in countries with very low cost of living.
In his post, Bob uncharacteristically makes some statements about job losses due to offshoring that I can only agree with as far as they go, which isn’t terribly far.
