And by the time Florida wrote about the creaative class, software writers had been added to the list too.

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Already software writers feel salary pressure from India, cartoon animators from China, classified ad salesmen from Ebay and so on.

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Software writers, chipmakers and dotcom companies all have a lot to lose if they don't stay on Microsoft's good side.

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