"open-source lets companies do more, not less." My argument isn't about what a company can do with open source (it's clearly more, for less). My argument is t

"open-source lets companies do more, not less." My argument isn't about what a company can do with open source (it's clearly more, for less). My argument is that as a result, they will need less developers and the developers they do need can be paid less. "This sounds like the "pirating software costs us TRILLIONS" false argument." Piracy nearly put my last company out of business. Say what you want about it, but I saw the direct effects. When I stopped the cracks on the torrent sites (which was a cat/mouse game), my sales jumped up as much as 30%. The direct result of piracy is Software-as-a-service. Now you get to pay a monthly fee for software you normally would have only paid once.