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Re:18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1 by caseysoftware on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:57PM (#10575868)
This was the common argument 10 years ago as open source CMSes - primarily WordPress and Drupal - started becoming more common. That eventually web developers would be entirely replaced by people who just configure plugins/modules.

As we've seen, software development has stagnated and almost gone away in the ten years since.

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Re:18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1 by makomk on Monday November 16, 2015 @02:33PM (#10576561)
Open source CMSes increase efficiency - by reducing the amount of work required to set up a website, they mean that the time and money saved can potentially be used for more productive purposes. Working for free doesn't do that; it involves the same amount of work and time, just for free.
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