> Open source has also cut many jobs and devalued salaries The flip side is that open source fueled the web explosion. Example: you don't need a multi-million

> Open source has also cut many jobs and devalued salaries The flip side is that open source fueled the web explosion. Example: you don't need a multi-million dollar IT team to have a storefront, because you don't have to hand-build a framework. How many people here are making over $100k/yr doing computer stuff for a business that wouldn't have dreamed of hiring someone to do computer stuff twenty years ago? Without open source, we'd probably just have a small priesthood building WebObjects front-ends to mainframes, and only Fortune 500 companies would be able to afford a web presence.