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Re: India, Productivity, and Tropical Climes
At 11:31 PM 8/13/96 +0600, Arun Mehta wrote:
> As regards IBM, its agreement with the government of India, under
> which it was allowed to operate in the country, stipulated that
> it would produce here, and transfer some technology. Instead, as
> the government found, all it did was sell time on second-hand
> computers (1401's as I recall, and this was mid to late '70s).
> IBM was asked to either dilute, or live up to its original
> agreement, which it wasn't prepared to do, so it left.
Every single foreign computer company left during roughly the same
period, as did almost all foreign companies and anybody who had a choice.
The reasons generally given by those who left, for this mass exodus,
which eventually sent the government into insolvency, is that Indian
]officials were arrogant, rude, dishonest, corrupt, continually broke
contracts and agreements, and attempted to exercise direct power over
everyone and everything.
If indian government officials have a different version, I would not
regard that version as coming "from the horses mouth"
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