Damn crappy [insert country here] software!

After reading this article over on Salon, I wonder if you'll hear me sometime in the future complaining about crappy software primarily programmed by outsourced programmers.

I think it'd be nice if there were some sort of information available with the software that said "some outsourced programming from India, Ireland, Russia, etc. was used in the creation of this software." Of course, I don't think it'd do much to change my buying habits, considering I drive a German-designed, Mexican-made car, but still.

I've been lucky, so far. My company isn't outsourcing any programming or support jobs to other companies/countries. But, I have had been on some calls with other companies that do outsource to other countries. I'm not knocking the competency of the other programmers, I just worry that programmers could be going the way of the skilled laborer of yore.

If outsourcing really takes off and India becomes a major white-collar industrial power, are we going to start bashing them like we did Japan back in the 70s-80s-90s?