[oceanview]

That Japanese auto competition was legitimate. They invested and started up rival companies, and made a better product, and sold it into a country (the US) that allowed a truly free market for them to do so. Let all the engineers in India form startups to compete with Dell and Oracle and Cisco, and then let them come out with a competing product and sell it into our market. Instead, we are sending Dell and Oracle to India, 100 engineers at a time.

[Pukin Dog]

and then let them come out with a competing product and sell it into our market.

I think they did. Only to a different customer. You can argue whether cheaper means better or not, but to the corporations that are hiring these folks, they appear to be competing just fine.