F/OSS will be our savior! (Score 1)

The outsourcing of IT skills is a natural cycle which the US saw in the '70s when much of our manufacturing jobs left. The only jobs that avoid this cycle are service based jobs. If you are providing a service, you must be present to do the job. Because of this, I see F/OSS as our savior if we choose to accept it. If software as a commodity is free, even the developers overseas will loose their jobs because they cost more than free! But, ultimately, companies doing business here need and require someone for support (i.e. someone they can put their hands on and thump when problems arise). If we follow the model of providing support for free software, our jobs will remain here as support people, and the development work we will do for "free" so we can get the support work that feeds our families... Example: IBM.