http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Hey Oren, I think the article actually includes your argument as well. I think you've identified one of the weak spots in the article, however. I cannot see where he justifies (or provides a reference to such justification) how switching costs are lowered when recruiting open source developers. I perceive that to be his motivation behind the point you critize. He also speaks of a pool of OSS devs; granted the projects committer roosters may provide such a pool, but there are many competent users and trainers that do not commit - and that may be just as competent. In that respect, I think it is analogous to the closed source situation. Oh well, it was a couple of weeks since I read it but I thought it had some thought provoking points, most of where on the pro-side of OSS, but that is our POV, of course. :) http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment4http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment4Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:56:29 GMTI disagree with another part of his post: http://dotmad.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-source-is-not-collectively.html http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment3http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment3Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:37:29 GMTI think Nick lives in a world where there's no innovation and the whole world runs on existing open-source solutions that miraculously make a perfect fit for the job. Please Nick, show me this parallel universe! http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment2http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment2Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:20:39 GMTYou are rigth, open source code is the life of the software, with open source everyone can look at code written by other people, there will be confrontation, and I really do not think that open source can drive down salary. Alk. http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment1http://ayende.com/2332/open-source-and-the-programmers-dilemma#comment1Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:52:50 GMT