The license cost point is a good one. I actually think it is kind of sad that software as a profession is all becoming enterprise software. No offense, but look at almost all of the YC projects... they're all things that I frankly would have had virtually no interest in coding as a kid. It all looks CRUD apps with the word "social" in the pitch.
But I think the profession has become one where software is marginalized, and you make money off of everything else. It's like music. No one wants to pay you for the music -- you have to make money selling t-shirts.
And then we have threads where people are surprised to see people say, "I just need a programmer".
The license cost point is a good one. I actually think it is kind of sad that software as a profession is all becoming enterprise software. No offense, but look at almost all of the YC projects... they're all things that I frankly would have had virtually no interest in coding as a kid. It all looks CRUD apps with the word "social" in the pitch.
Yeah, this was actually a point of contention when OSS started getting big, I think. But it was inevitable--things that are fun to write, people will write for fun.
I think there's some fun stuff left. Low level code tied to specific hardware and code that very few people need and can be held as a competitive advantage, for instance.
The license cost point is a good one. I actually think it is kind of sad that software as a profession is all becoming enterprise software. No offense, but look at almost all of the YC projects... they're all things that I frankly would have had virtually no interest in coding as a kid. It all looks CRUD apps with the word "social" in the pitch.
But I think the profession has become one where software is marginalized, and you make money off of everything else. It's like music. No one wants to pay you for the music -- you have to make money selling t-shirts.
And then we have threads where people are surprised to see people say, "I just need a programmer".