alt Hacker NewsI see little proof open source has resulted in higher wages and not the fact that everything is being digitized and the subsequent demand for such people to assist in such.
I see little proof open source has resulted in higher wages and not the fact that everything is being digitized and the subsequent demand for such people to assist in such.
I'm not sure how I can prove it, but ~25 years ago building software without open source sucked. You had to build everything from scratch! It took months to get even the most basic things up and running.
I think open source is the single most important productivity boost to our industry that's ever existed. Automated testing is a close second.
Google, Facebook, many others would not have existed without open source to build on.
And those giants and others like them that were enabled by open source employed a TON of people, at competitive rates that greatly increased our salaries.