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H-1B bill fails == more Linux in USA





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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:56:17 -0700
From: Don Marti <dmarti@electriclichen.com>
To: svlug@svlug.org

1. H-1B increase dies in the
Senate. (http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/visa-bill.html)
Corporations that had been counting on hiring this way, and
brib^H^H^H^Hcontributing to the campaigns of elected representatives
in order to bring it about, are even more desparate for qualified
employees than before.

Therefore, employers are now increasing their efforts to attract and
retain the best IT staff in other ways.  One way they can do this
without increasing budgets (remember, they blew their money on the
politicians) is to promise IT staff the opportunity to work with
quality Open Source software instead of nasty proprietary stuff.

"With the last-minute failure of the H-1B bill, the already in-demand
homegrown techie is king.  More and more employers are discovering
that in order to keep him or her, they need to promise a Linux work
environment -- or watch their top coder, engineer, or administrator
jump ship for a company that does."

If this is a little true now it will be a lot true when the story gets
accepted in the trade and mainstream press that managers read.  The
media writes about interesting stories and helps make them happen.