Re:A better idea. (Score 2)

The website http://www.immigrationreform.com/ also suggests the same thing. It is signed by Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak and many others. If immigration policy is reformed to give green cards to all H1-B holders who have certain qualifications (after maybe a couple of tax paying years to prevent people from misusing it), this would prevent the need for the person with the H1-B to be "stuck" to a company for 4-5 years and make the tech job market completely free again since the H1-B holders will either get green cards or be able to move freely between jobs. This would also save tax payers money since the long tedious INS and Dept. of Labor processing will be simplified a great deal.