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




care to enlighten us regarding what this H-1B bill is about? is it about
raising the number of work permits for foreigners in "needed professions"?
any more info? (the below mentioned URL is password protected).

thanks,
guy

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>
> To: Tech News Emporium <ira-tech@scso.com>,
>     What do you want to do tommorow? <Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: H-1B bill fails == more Linux in USA 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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 Linuxwork
> 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.
> 
> 
>