Interesting take. I hadn't thought about that aspect before. Personally I'd thought more along the lines of highly competent people making valuable software for

Interesting take. I hadn't thought about that aspect before. Personally I'd thought more along the lines of highly competent people making valuable software for free might devalue software in general and salaries along with that. I do think a lot more work went into re-inventing the wheel before and there was a lot more work to go around in core technologies. It still happens but less so with open source or commercial tech that becomes industry standard.