I am only making a point that concepts/ideas are not the same as technologies, and shouldn't be treated as if they are. It's gotten so out of hand now that I ha

I am only making a point that concepts/ideas are not the same as technologies, and shouldn't be treated as if they are. It's gotten so out of hand now that I half-expect people to start attaching version numbers to them, like "NoSQL 2.0". It's as if the phenomenon of a "technology buzzword" has been totally divorced from the technical product the buzzword is supposed to refer to, which is frustrating. If I have a resume full of concepts/ideas and no actual technologies, then the fact is that I can't be trusted to extend or repair any real system. The beauty of open source is that I do have skills I can take from company to company. I can use my Rails experience at one company to hit the ground running at another. If we start replacing actual technologies with mere concepts in our trade, then we still have a shared language but no shared skills. So the end result is eventually the same as if open source never happened and every programming environment was proprietary. End rant.