[spooneybarger]

And without php which is free, there would be no joomla, and without gcc and linux and freebsd and a ton of other tools there would be no php... and how many people wouldn't have jobs right now?

My entire career has been built around using various open source tools.

Have you consider that without these tools to make X project take Y time that X project might never have been done? If it was a massive undertaking to create a website for Mom's Bakery, how many Mom's Bakeries would have websites?

I would argue that all these tools create more work, more value, not less.