Companies and managers downplay the leverage that software engineers have. Every company _should_ be a technology company. If developers had authority over par

Companies and managers downplay the leverage that software engineers have. Every company _should_ be a technology company. If developers had authority over parts of running the organisation, just imagine the innovation that could come out of that. If there was less open source, developers would have to be better at what they do (more skilled). And yes, lots of money could be made with proprietary web servers, languages etc.