It amuses me to no end how poorly so many of my competitors misunderstand 'open source' work.
There are 2 issues here:
They are *not* the same, altho you can find a small number of people who belong to both groups, just like you can find a small number of conservatives who believe the earth is flat. But making a blanket statement equating the two betrays both ignorance and fear.
Open-source is hobbyist work. Work real programmers do for a hobby. They universally fall into two groups:
The 'open-source is communism' crowd is road-kill, in my biz.
I encourage *all* my competitors to believe that!
Been there, done that.