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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by brandonmenc on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @11:57AM (#9532660)
> 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.

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Re:Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B by mixmastamyk on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:56PM (#9533097)
It has commoditized basic software development sure, thankfully there are lots more interesting things to work on top of that.
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