Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.

Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.

In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.