[sten]

open source developers (anti-capitalists) are hosing small software companies by releasing software to the public produced at no cost.

as someone that has had to ‘compete’ against open source offerings, it’s a major pain in the butt

if anyone is wondering why software development is being pushed to 3rd world countries, you can thank the open source community as the business types continue to try and compete by cutting costs

[ShadowAce]

First of all, "open source developers" are not anti-capitalists.

as someone that has had to ‘compete’ against open source offerings, it’s a major pain in the butt

Any competition is a pain in the butt. Deal with it.

if anyone is wondering why software development is being pushed to 3rd world countries, you can thank the open source community as the business types continue to try and compete by cutting costs

Wrong. Softwre development was being pushed to 3rd word countries before OSS became the popular "in" thing to do. They are returning because companies are finally realizing that the developers were correct when they warned about the quality of the code being produced there.

[Notary Sojac]

as someone that has had to ‘compete’ against open source offerings, it’s a major pain in the butt

Cry me a river.

In the town where I used to live, I would once a month cut my neighbor's lawn. For free. She was a sweet 90-year old lady and she cried when my wife and I moved away.

By your logic, I should have refused to mow her lawn because it was preventing some lawn service from making a buck.

[Reeses]

The model for proprietary software is to write cheap messy code then sell the hell out of it to win the most market share. Microsoft and Oracle have gotten rich this way. The cheap messy code insures upgrades and maintenance income long term. Propriety software companies that write code as clean as open source go out of business. If you're charging for software, you have to invest mostly in sales, not programming. Those high end steak houses survive mainly by helping salesmen close deals.

[Utmost Certainty]

Nah. Intellectual property laws are what’s distinctly anti-capitalist here. Since these rely on government fiat to grant effective monopoly power over intangible ideas and innovations, thereby enforcing an arbitrary limitation of supply on goods that in reality are infinitely reproducible. Nothing capitalist about that.

[sick1]

In a word, no. Most FOSS developers are either do it for a hobby or do it for very commercial reasons. Maybe your impression of open source was colored by Richard Stallman and the GNU project but that view was embraced and co-opted by the joys of making $$.

That said, I’m going to get back to a sweet little contract I picked up supporting a startup that is using FOSS software for BigData and Search.