> All the value is stored up in the team, the logic and the design, and very little of it is in the code itself.” I regularly use a device with firmware that i

> All the value is stored up in the team, the logic and the design, and very little of it is in the code itself.” I regularly use a device with firmware that is probably dated around 1989. Yes, the value is the code on that EPROM chip. The team is long gone. This article's author has never used a program that was well developed, documented and finished, so that all that is left it to use it. Or any other great piece of engineering that was done and dusted, and didn't need a perpetual team to prop it up.