Isles Tech

I'm a teacher by profession (and the salary from the teaching is what brings food to the table) and so I enjoy helping other people learn some things. Technically speaking, I am also earning my living off people's ignorance, but in the process, I am helping them learn something, in a good way.

However, I know of some people who, without batting an eyelash, could hoodwink other people to give up their money in exchange for service which I doubt is worth it. Consider a webmaster kuno who extracts 25,000 pesos from a company in exchange for a website which took four months to create and was just a Joomla hack in the end. Or here's another case: a software engineering company which sells an open-source application to a school for an outrageous sum of more than half a million pesos. Even if the school received very good technical support (which I doubt, considering that even the company's website is down at the moment) it's still tulis atubangay, as my friends would put it.

I don't buy some people's idea that it is the end-users' fault that they don't know the true worth of what they are buying or paying for. In my opinion, we who are in the know has the responsibility to inform those who do not know the actual worth of the service their getting. Unless, of course, we are so selfish ourselves.