Given many programmers got their careers started by making plugins, themes and sites using open source CMS systems, I'd say those won pretty handily. If you've ever used WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, MediaWiki, Magento, phpBB etc for a project, you've benefited from open source.
Same goes with anyone who used open source programming/scripting languages. The likes of PHP and Python are open source, as are Ruby, JavaScript, C/C++ and even now Java.
Hell, it's probable web development wouldn't exist with anywhere near as much of popularity if most basic components of it weren't open source.
Does that mean some people can't make much like they used to? Sure. But it also means a lot more people can make a living at all.
And given the salaries of many developers/programmers, it's a lot better as a situation than the one journalism is in right now. Or the ones involving creative fields like art, music, media, game development, etc, where the top 0.01% make money and the rest kinda struggle.
from Hacker News - New Comments: "WordPress" http://bit.ly/2UOYSQ3
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