Wow! I bought something on the Internet (a "code library" for software development) in the course of some work I did a few years ago, and today I was going to buy an update. Just perchance, I realized that I had bought that code from a Romanian company using a German reseller. If your web site looks good enough, nobody cares where you are, and who you partner with.
It's not that I mind doing business with Romania, or Germany. I was just amazed that the presentation in this case was so slick that I never even considered whether this was like any of the other companies I do business with (usually from the U.S.). I reviewed the web site content, downloaded the sample and tried it, and since it was what I wanted, I bought it without so much as asking who was selling it to me. They were giving me the goods, they had a place to put the credit card number, voila!
I like things that way. God created us to live for His glory. In the course of our lives, we work to be able to supply for our needs, to worship God, to love others (probably not in that order). If someone else is going to sell me the product of their efforts, I don't care where God placed that person - whether in Romania, Venezuela, or down the street. May God's blessings be on the people in Romania that wrote the code I bought, and their partners in Germany.
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