I love this article, although it also discourages me. How could I possibly create such a company? How could I ever find one? His point about the second type of

I love this article, although it also discourages me. How could I possibly create such a company? How could I ever find one? His point about the second type of company touched a nerve: that's me, to a tee. It's an article from 2006, so the Great Ruby Rewrite in my case is the Great Clojure Rewrite - apart from that - ouch! However, I don't see how having a Development Abstraction Layer in place will prevent programmers - being in charge - from making this kind of mistake. Isn't this exactly what happened to Netscape?