> I think the burden of proof is on you here, open source is the base in which pretty much everything has been built, including this website, the web server it

> I think the burden of proof is on you here, open source is the base in which pretty much everything has been built, including this website, the web server it sits on, the programming language it was written in, the operating system that runs on, and more than likely the browser you are viewing it in. The claim was about the software engineering profession not just the web-based sector.