More and More, Made in India, from GigaOm: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog. Five years ago I wrote a letter to the editor of the Seattle Times pointing out that if the US wanted to remain competitive in the software business it was going to have to have a labour force to do that. The issue at the time was protectionism (when is the issue in Congress ever anything but protectionism?), with various pols in a flap over H1B Visas being granted to Indians to come and work in the US. There are only two ways to get that labour force — home grow it, or import it. They did exactly the wrong thing and sent some of the brightest of the software industry’s workforce home to India. And in the process, they accelerated a cycle of Indian entrepreneurs turning to the homeland to produce new products to sell on the global stage.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
