[donnythecroc]

This is a great point. He's literally created a job.

[dgfitz]

To take this point further, two jobs were kind of created. The vacancy left and the new job.

[ttymck]

That doesn't seem accurate. When hypothetical "Person B" leaves their job to fill the vacancy, were 3 jobs now created?

[xur17]

And he hired a few full time employees, so more than 2 jobs were created.

[amelius]

I'm not sure if I get the logic here. If he instead wrote a bunch of FOSS tools, then that would have been a worse outcome for society?

[satvikpendem]

In economic terms where money isn't circulating, yes. Now, many open source projects are used by other companies that are commercial, so that does grow the economy however.