The point of this short item is to complain about two things: first, that MIT's OpenCourseWare was developed using Microsoft products, and second, that much of the back-end work was done in India. I can't get over the logic of the first - "We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren't worth considering." Sheesh. No wonder there's a recession on. The second complaint is more problematic. I don't see why people in India are somehow less deserving of jobs than people in the United States or anywhere else. And I am concerned about an environment where it becomes a damning crtiticism to point out that work was contracted to India or any other country. This isn't about the 'race to the bottom' (a legitimate concern, but not the issue here). This is about basic fairness. Be sure to read the comments to this article: eye-opening (and in places disturbing).
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