&gt; OpenBSD is a great example of the value of competition, and the necessity to maintain market rules that encourage it.<p>The market doesn&#x27;t work here. The OpenBSD people aren&#x27;t responding to market incentives; they aren&#x27;t earning much (AFAICT). They appear to be responding to internal incentives. The market&#x27;s incentive for talented developers is to work on something else and get paid more.<p>That is, they appear to be doing this despite the marketplace, not because of it.