[kemitchell]

The ability to dip into the sea of preexisting (permissive) open source software to deliver value justifies higher developer pay. More thoughts on that here:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/01/22/largesse-oblige.html

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

Microsoft in the 90's before they used open source was paying its developers quite well.