Lost jobs due to open source

[Michael Shigorin]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:25:46AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > but also a more sophisticated one: "If we all do open source
> > software, a lot of jobs will get cut, the amount of IT staff
> > with a job will decrease dramatically".
> A massive proportion of software developers are paid to write
> custom, line of business, in-house software for the company
> they work for.

Ah, forgot to mention that.  It's about "custom vs commodity".

+1

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