Software, like music, is a performance art. People will always pay for you to make something new. If I solve a problem you have, you will be willing to pay me f

Software, like music, is a performance art. People will always pay for you to make something new. If I solve a problem you have, you will be willing to pay me for the benefit of having it fixed, even if it soon solves the same problem for other people, too. If every single piece of software ever written was open-sourced, there would still be more software that needed to be written.