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Nonsense

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2003 05:26 AM
The only jobs threatened by open-source are those involved with producing popular, packaged off-the-shelf items like operating systems, office productivity suites, software development packages, etc.
Believe it or not those are a tiny minority of the total programmer population. Most are working on custom packages, in-house development, software for very specialized markets, contract jobs, and support. We'll do just fine. Don't worry.

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