> Except, it's your future job that's getting cheapened.
That is the economically proper result, it just looks bad when comapred to how developers and our employers have been ripping off software users for so long. Every time two or more of us write essentially the same code when implementations already existed but weren't freed, the industry has tacitly coöperated to inflate demand for software developers and pass on the costs of the wasted effort. The free software trend is not in my narrow interest, but I still think it is what should happen.
That is the economically proper result, it just looks bad when comapred to how developers and our employers have been ripping off software users for so long. Every time two or more of us write essentially the same code when implementations already existed but weren't freed, the industry has tacitly coöperated to inflate demand for software developers and pass on the costs of the wasted effort. The free software trend is not in my narrow interest, but I still think it is what should happen.