[vaxman]

Translation: "This post on a Venture Capital website implies that the legacy of Jay Miner's greatest engineering accomplishment is running a Michigan school's heating and air conditioning system, making Jay spin(); in his grave."

Moreover, this story is very old, is probably no longer true, but continues to resurface from time to time.

I think a novel benefit of open source is that it shields engineers from the often fatal consequences of being on the wrong side of a billionaire. As a consequence, there are now a couple of generations of engineers who can't relate to what life in their occupation was like before the open source movement went mainstream.