Nobody is ever going to pay somebody to shovel holes when they can just use a back-hoe. So, let’s outlaw industrial machinery. Open Source achieves the exact o

Nobody is ever going to pay somebody to shovel holes when they can just use a back-hoe. So, let’s outlaw industrial machinery. Open Source achieves the exact opposite of what you say. It allows people to direct their talent and effort to solving high-value problems instead of low-value ones. Instead of writing a JPEG decoder, you can create a professional photography workflow or a pre-press pipeline. Instead of writing the low-level bits of a database, you can create an enterprise SaaS. Yes, Open Source infrastructure is hard to compete with. However, it is super easy to out-compete companies that are wasting their engineering resources re-inventing the wheel. Of course, there is always the option of doing the basic stuff better of course and being rewarded for it. Some will. And, while this reply is already too long to get into it, the majority of Open Source is written by people being paid to do it. So, wrong there too.