[pjmlp]

This is all very nice to state as goal, but it does not help if you need money as software developer.

I do a lot of open source on my free time, but that is because I get paid by one of those commercial bad guys companies to work on closed software, which allows me to contribute back for free.

How far do you think most open source projects would be without sponsoring from commercial companies that allow some developers to work on open source projects.

This is one of the reasons why most successful open source software is developer tooling, or nowadays hidden behind SaaS walls.

It is all nice and dandy to talk about open source ideals, but when you need to earn at least 1 000€ per month, those ideals start to fade away. Speaking from experience.

[kimlelly]

I'm not saying closed-source is "bad guys" or anything like that. I'm just saying what I'm observing: open-source is picking up steam and maturing across the board. It's not slowing down at all. It's true that it will kill some developer jobs. But that can't be an argument for not supporting open-source (tech is always about getting more efficient, resource-wise, and therefor a job killer by definition).

[embolism]

Software in general is 'picking up steam and maturing a across the board'. We now have almost 2 billion consumers carrying a unix box in their pockets, not running open source.

If anything, the relevance of open source is dwindling by comparison.