Bill Gates, gives more reason to use Linux and boycott Microsoft products:
Anybody who's got good computer science training, they are not out there unemployed," Gates said. "We're just not seeing an available labor pool."
From the
CNN article
Government figures showed 5.7 percent of information technology employees were out of work last year versus 5.5 percent of all workers.
The H-1B and L-1 VISAs are currently being used to
bring in foreign IT workers @ 40% less than the prevailing US salary.
The H-1B/L-1 VISA system is currently being abused to displace American Engineers. This was not the original intent of the VISA.
The original intent was to bring to the US exceptional talent, for example, Einstein and a series of scientists that simply did not exist within the US. The VISA was never intended to displace American engineers with cheaper labor, which is now it's more common use.
Currently TATA, an outsourcing firm has
a median salary for H-1B VISAs $36,502 whereas the
median US engineering salary for the same positions is $71,251.
Reference: "Outsourcing America", Hira & Hira, p. 179
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