On: Anarchism, Capitalism, Altruism : Why do I open source?

[rick888]

Open source is devaluing developers' salaries.

Why would a company pay an engineer with a college degree to build something, when they can get it for free and hire a software mechanic to make changes? It also makes it much easier to farm jobs out to countries like India and the Philippines.

[ericmoritz → rick888]

because you can't get specifically what you want from a open source project unless you own that project.

[rick888 → ericmoritz]

If you aren't selling it, you can. Most businesses aren't selling software.