Hopefully this comment won't get lost and I can get some contrary views. Everything IMHO; I'm trying to formulate my own views on this top. Be kind. :) Among o

Hopefully this comment won't get lost and I can get some contrary views. Everything IMHO; I'm trying to formulate my own views on this top. Be kind. :) Among other things, I think open source and free software has devalued software and programming in the eyes of business owners. The root cause for this is that a culture of self-employment doesn't exist in the programmer community. All of us are looking to polish our resumes and make them look good. The easiest way to do that is to clone some existing idea and make it open source so that it can be reviewed by a prospective employer. IMHO, no other profession gives away their crown jewels for free like we programmers do.