It's just as bad here in Australia. Thanks to our Luddite of an IT and communications minister, our IT industry is steadily going backwards! Yes, he is a Luddite, he only recently obtained an e-mail address.

Much of our IT is outsourced to India, where they pay programmers 2 c an hour or whatever the slave wage is. Sweatshop programming, who would have thought? Most of the big companies here use this service rather than pay Aussie programmers decent rates.