Well, Yes, It's Offshore Development

[billroper]

Via Instapundit, this article describes a new model for offshore software development. In this case, it would be just over three miles offshore...

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Actually, I see putting operations on ships in international waters as a likely development in the near future for corporations who are trying to avoid government restrictions. Probably doing things slightly more controversial than developing software, but there might be intellectual property issues that would make it worth the trouble of hiding a software development operation on a ship. (Perhaps a project that can only be done with development tools that are terribly expensive per seat; by hiding out on a ship they can get away with using one hacked copy for 50 programmers.)

I don't know how much it costs to rent and operate a cruise ship, but somehow I doubt that it would really be cost effective to really maintain the kind of conditions on board that the people who pay $5000 for a 10 day cruise expect, even if you don't have to pay taxes or any meaningful salary to the individual workers. But a floating sweatshop on a run down ship that was heading for the scrap yard would probably be just great as far as the business executives who've shipped the industry to India see things.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

sounds like you're NOT going to be sending them your resume...

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think there's any international waters in Lake Vermillion (the reservoir that provides drinking water for the town down the road), so they probably won't be setting one up acceptably close to me.