>The people putting it together don't need to be very skilled; they're working with off-the-shelf commodity parts, manufactured to a minimum specification, with

>The people putting it together don't need to be very skilled; they're working with off-the-shelf commodity parts, manufactured to a minimum specification, with specific dimensions and attributes, which loosely couple in many configurations with identical parts from different vendors all over the world. Isn't this in some ephemeral way exactly what most of us do? Sure, there are people in the world doing real Computer Science(TM) but most of us are assembling apps from existing parts. Sure there's glue and there are domain specific bits, but there's a lot under the hood in both paid and open source forms aren't significantly different from going to a parts bin and pulling the right SKUs.