i bet the rise of cloud hosting providers and SaaS has decreased the demand for sysadmins and self-hosting. Also the state of free online tech info is much bett

i bet the rise of cloud hosting providers and SaaS has decreased the demand for sysadmins and self-hosting. Also the state of free online tech info is much better than say in the 90's, plus there's all the pirated and copylefted ebooks and PDF's available through mechanisms like BitTorrent.