The slow and painful death

As someone whose daily job is to slap together software systems that run world's economy I am intimately aware of many tendencies on the global software market, both commercial and FOS. There is a tendency that I do not yet know how to feel about.

The cloud consolidation efforts of The Big 5 (i.e. Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Amazon) lead to many smaller projects dying off. I can feel it in the water... Shit! Not LOTR again. I can see it on Nuget, Github, Sourceforge, and other portals. I can see previously vivid projects becoming stagnant. Is this good or bad?

I still maintain that the shift from the North American university graduates doing software development to Asia is terrifying. Asians are afraid of losing their faces. They are genetically incapable of admitting fault. This makes them terrible candidates to development jobs. This and their pathological hatred of all things European and American. Big-5 consolidation shifts development further off-shore, predominantly to Asia. We are SOL.

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