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"Interests me that so many people here insist on the rightness of putting others out of work, or lowering their salaries.
For me, I can't think of anything more harmful, aside from a physical assault."

Hmmm, the majority of jobs that have been lost the last couple of years have been due to the following:

Dot com bubble burst - 90% of the e-commerce businesses were founded on bad design and really bad management. Much of the debacle was due to inflation of product value and at the time there were not many coders like today. John and Jane Q. Public got smart and pulled funding...

Many coding jobs have been outsourced (not open source, out sourced) to other nations and the local employees... terminated. Has nothing to do with Open Source and everything to do with major corps trying to save a buck for the CEO and his merry band of over paid twits.

Our economy was doing pretty good under Clinton (even though I disliked him as a president, I will give him his due) but now under Shrub (I love that!!! Thanks Tech Diva!) it is tanking again with guess who taking the majority of the load? The little guy still.

I have not seen any news, no reports, have heard not one developer anywhere state they have lost thier job due to Open Source. Where is this happening? An excellent post was made earlier asking about a carpenter being put out of work or affected if you build your own add on to your home. (I am paraphrasing from memory) The same applies to Open Source. Who loses? In the end it seems to be working just fine. If it was such a problem then Open Source the GPL and Linux would have shrivled and died years ago.
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NO WONDER  Roger Ramjet | 02/22/05
Even a jackass needs a break  Squawkbox | 02/22/05
Talented Jackasses can refuse and resist long hours all they want.  GreatInca | 02/22/05
Talented Jackasses can refuse and resist long hours all they want.  GreatInca | 02/22/05
Why must examples be made of anyone?  Squawkbox | 02/22/05
Hear, Hear  Kerensky97 | 02/22/05
Been saying this for  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
I was a lease lizard once and what you say is so true  Squawkbox | 02/22/05
Emergencies, not constant state of emergency.  maxo_z | 02/22/05
Working 10-12 hour days means overstaffing???  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
Day: do jobs; Night: kill jobs.  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
Who is threatened?  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
Be good to have specific numbers.  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
whatever  JasonL31 | 02/22/05
How does this make any sense??  Mack DaNife | 02/22/05
Products for sale.  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
I do not agree at all  Mack DaNife | 02/23/05
Consistency  Anton Philidor | 02/23/05
Re: Consistancy  Mack DaNife | 02/23/05
Grr. Understaffing- not overstaffing  maxo_z | 02/22/05
Day: do jobs; Night: Kill jobs [Article comment]  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
If I want to program I'll write what I want  voska | 02/22/05
Hope you write something you can sell...  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
But that would make it work and not fun  voska | 02/23/05
I Turned Down A Lot Of Jobs Like That....  itanalyst | 02/22/05
Me too, life's too short.  Kerensky97 | 02/22/05
Un the freedom of Open Source Software is much competition  GreatInca | 02/22/05
Donation or specific $ amount or salary  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
Again...  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
Remember why the dot com companies tanked?  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
But of course even RMS approves of the selling of software  Michael Kelly | 02/22/05
Notice the loophole?  Anton Philidor | 02/22/05
The Unix folks  Linux User 147560 | 02/22/05
The Unix folks...  Anton Philidor | 02/23/05
That's not what caused the crash  voska | 02/23/05
nope, developers not working 60+ hours  JasonL31 | 02/22/05

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