This old saw... I think most open source folks are writing the stuff while on payroll, at least by volume. Increased sharing is preventing as much work from g

This old saw... I think most open source folks are writing the stuff while on payroll, at least by volume. Increased sharing is preventing as much work from getting re-done, which is fine because people want more programs than can be supplied by the capable. Nobody looks at garbage collection, one of the biggest programmer-time-savers (and hence eliminators) invented in our art and says "man, they're taking our jerbs." So perhaps while not disproving your general point, this kind of thing has been going on for a very long time. Things will be peachy as long as engineering is a growth industry. It'll start to get ugly when the island starts to look more crowded due to a rising ocean. Here's to hoping it doesn't happen to me in my career!