Open source CMSs allow people who don't code to earn a living building websites, so in that case, free software benefits the 'users' more than it benefits the coders, especially the coders who used to get paid to reinvent the CMS over and over again.<br>
<br>I think the trend in open source projects is that the skill level of developers/coers continues to increase while the skills level of deployers/users continues to decrease. You'll earn the most money by operating in between - as someone who spend most of their time deploying systems but also spends time their time developing the code so they understand the project's capabilities and trajectory.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
it's a really complex picture, combining<br><br>1) volunteer labor<br><br>2) precarious unpaid labor<br><br>3) low-paid labour<br><br>4) a labour aristocracy<br><br>in a context where, 1) capital owns software companies, not users or producers 2) the free software is mostly useful to producers of software, i.e. coders, not users who lack the knowledge to improve the software.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Bryan Bishop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kanzure@gmail.com" target="_blank">kanzure@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Patrick Anderson wrote:<br>
> Do you agree this is already what we see in Free Software:<br>
> that wages are approaching zero (much work done gratis)?<br>
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</div>The wages aren't approaching zero; rather, programmers subsidize their<br>
own time with their own money. Some is still paying.<br>
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