I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. The skills might be abundant[0] but the effort and knowledge of the domain (business logic) are not avai

I understand where you're coming from, but I disagree. The skills might be abundant[0] but the effort and knowledge of the domain (business logic) are not available to many. It depends on the domain, games in IOS don't count for example, but I feel like there are lots of situations where the software can be directly monetized. Lets assume that's not true - how do you actually monetize a community? Developers around a 'platform' are difficult to monetize. SaaS works for some things but not everything. The idea that 'developer mindshare is a winner-take-all game' is true if your Google or Facebook - it's a total different game if you're one person or a medium sized software business. [0] I actually don't think this is true. There are abundant skills to do trivial things, but skilled problem solvers for harder classes are still constrained - we can see that by the rocketing salary bands of developers over all compared to the rest of the economy (at least in the USA/Western Europe).