From an open source perspective, isn't that still a good thing? Ultimately most open source being released now is done for free. By floating the value of open source on the free market, what's being said is that open source software is worth more than nothing, but how much more is completely up to the overall market, which is a global one. It would be nice for devs to be paid better wages, but I don't think devcoins are really best suited for that...dvc is more geared towards getting open source software for the cheapest possible nonzero price.

Companies having an avenue to find cheap developers for bounties isn't really a big consideration for the sdevcoin project, because there are tons of ways to get them to do that already. While the devs might want dvc payment, there's nothing stopping them accepting any other currency and converting themselves. The real innovation here is the increase of reward to open source developers, who were previously working for nothing.