Existing business will have to pay for those compliance officers, salaried or through outsourced work. It WILL require more scale. There is no reduction here.

Existing business will have to pay for those compliance officers, salaried or through outsourced work. It WILL require more scale. There is no reduction here. In absolute terms, less time will be spent writing software and more time will be spent on compliance (which maybe a good thing for traditional, corporate software!). But, it's not something your average open source developer is falling all over themselves to have anything to do with.