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Canonical should hire a legion of tens of thousands of Chinese programmers.
It will be very cheap, and Chinese people are very intelligent and hard workers. Always top A grade students, perfect score on all tests.
In China people work 20 hours a day for only like $2 dollar a day.
We can employ them for only 6-9 hours a day with a great salary of $5-10 dollar per day.
It will be a great deal for them, because they can work less and earn more.
It will be great for us, because we can hire tens of thousand Chinese programmers, a whole legion of them and increase the development rate by a factor of a thousand.
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taron wrote on the 7 May 08 at 14:27
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Lol, another one of your weird ideas ;)
Those chinese would be more needed for the Wine/ReactOS and the driver developement, because this are except not enough marceting the main issues of Ubuntu/Linux/Unix/OSS
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acet wrote on the 7 May 08 at 15:17
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dupe
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Auzy wrote on the 7 May 08 at 15:38
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Hmmmpth..
I was wondering how long it would take for you to crack :P
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jhoger wrote on the 7 May 08 at 16:19
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Are you kidding?
But, but, why not Indians, Ukranians, American high schoolers, or Oompa-Loompas? They're all cheap, and there are smart people everywhere. Oompa-Loompas work for Cacao beans.
Level of pay is only one factor. Frankly, outsourcing is hard. I doubt Canonical is at the level of sophistication to make it work. You have to have all requirements nailed down, and the ability to interface well with the remote operation. Outsourcing to one country/culture might succeed and outsourcing to another could fail depending on the abilities and resources of the company doing the outsourcing.
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Rabbid wrote on the 7 May 08 at 17:29
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Voted down because the possibility of this ending horribly wrong :P
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Warbo wrote on the 7 May 08 at 18:32
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W
T
F???
Ubuntu: Linux for human beings, made by slaves
Anyway, throwing people at a problem like coding is not a solution. A few motivated people, who understand the mechanics of something and are 'on the same wavelength', can be much more productive.
It has been shown time and time again that armies of code monkeys simply produce mountains of unmaintainable, shaky and undocumented code. Without a desire to work on something it is not going to be pursued fully, and since good code is a hard metric to determine (and therefore unfair to use as a basis of pay) a crap metric will inevitably be used, like lines of code written (but smaller programs are usually better programs, encouraging crap coding to end up with more pay).
WTF?
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chig00 wrote on the 7 May 08 at 19:06
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jhoger:
I wish Ukraine be cheaps, but unfortunately for me it is not :( everything is really expensive here, the cheapest flat you can find here is more than fifty grand...
Better idea would be to invent time machine and go back in time and help Linus back in 90s by providing source of 2.6.25 kernel :D
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Eldmannen wrote on the 7 May 08 at 19:24
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This sure is better than Microsoft's use of the "infinite monkey theorem".
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jhoger wrote on the 7 May 08 at 19:47
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chig00: I didn't say living in Ukraine was cheap, I said Ukrainians are cheap. Well, I mean lower paid.
This just isn't coming out right... sorry!
I should have just drawn the line at Oompa-Loompa men.
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Primož Papič wrote on the 7 May 08 at 20:03
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The weirdest idea ever on Brainstorm, ever.
But hey it's brainstorm...
But still -1 from me, sorry.
I just think this idea promotes using underpaid workforce,
and i'm against that.
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Raval wrote on the 7 May 08 at 20:48
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if we did that then it would only a matter of time before knock offs of Ubuntu start floating around on the black market.
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LC всадник cbet wrote on the 8 May 08 at 05:16
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I can understand your concept of more is better, but it would work way better if instead of paid programmers to program a free software canonical could pay/finance a few programs to teach open source minded people willing to help building an always better software even because Ubuntu is a philosophy as well not a just another commercial software option in a market.
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seshomaru samma wrote on the 8 May 08 at 05:46
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btw- Chinese programmers don't get 2$ a day, they get much more
you are thinking about factory workers
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holizz wrote on the 8 May 08 at 08:52
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-1 model minority racism
-1 outsourcing the jobs of open source hackers (many of whom already work for free)
-1 too many cooks spoil the broth
-1 generally unworkable
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Veichtlbauer wrote on the 8 May 08 at 11:15
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sorry dude, but this is sick. if i were chinese, id be offended. you should really get your picture of the world straight...
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lpkizz wrote on the 12 May 08 at 14:51
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ubuntu red flag
come on people
ubuntu red flag
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rekado wrote on the 19 May 08 at 07:55
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Hmm, living in China myself I feel this is kind of insulting to me. Come over to see what's going on with inflation here and revise your stereotypes, man!
The more I think about it the weirder the idea gets... might as well stop thinking about it.
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charmgene wrote on the 25 May 08 at 08:43
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@Eldmannen as a Chinese I feel quite insulted by your words on this idea though you may not have meant it.It seems that you have some prejudice on the Chinese people.
"In China people work 20 hours a day for only like $2 dollar a day." This is not true for most of the employees.
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spyyder wrote on the 30 Jul 08 at 22:10
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Best idea here.
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andruk wrote on the 22 Aug 08 at 09:11
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While I disagree entirely with the idea, I am voting it down simply for its extreme cultural ignorance and insensitivity. These kinds of ideas make Ubuntu, Linux, and the Open Source communities everywhere look foolish and prideful.
That being said, Eldmannen, I do appreciate your good ideas. You can be quite insightful when you try to be.
I don't say this often, but: -1
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