That’s true of course. And it’s true for a lot of people in other areas as well.
In vacuum I’m all for open source software, in fact I would like it a lot if everything was open. But reality is that as a developer in a smaller software company we’d be out of our jobs immediately as other, larger companies would take everything that’s worth taking and use their larger budgets to out advertise their copy.
That’s true of course. And it’s true for a lot of people in other areas as well. In vacuum I’m all for open source software, in fact I would like it a lot if everything was open. But reality is that as a developer in a smaller software company we’d be out of our jobs immediately as other, larger companies would take everything that’s worth taking and use their larger budgets to out advertise their copy.