In 2020, you can learn enough about programming in a 6 week bootcamp to be an effectively contributor at many companies. I'm not sure it was so easy in 1995. Th

In 2020, you can learn enough about programming in a 6 week bootcamp to be an effectively contributor at many companies. I'm not sure it was so easy in 1995. That said, I think the variability of free software has greatly expanded. There's piles and piles of poorly written garbage in package repositories now like npm, pypi, maven, rubygems, etc since it's so easy to publish code. I think it's also worth noting a lot of popular OSS and FSF still has massive commercial interests backing it. Maybe Linux is free but that doesn't change all the huge companies pouring massive amounts of money into it (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, etc) When this article was created, there was hardly a concept of SaaS like there is now but look how popular Github is vs Gitlab