I agree that there are boundless opportunities for skilled developers in bioinformatics --- IF they are willing to work for free or a substantial pay cut. The

I agree that there are boundless opportunities for skilled developers in bioinformatics --- IF they are willing to work for free or a substantial pay cut. The problem is that there is a big mismatch in expectations between developers and researchers: researchers are not accustomed to paying for software. Most developers in bioinformatics are other researchers, who are self-taught programmers paid by their grant funding or university, not by software sales. The quality of software is usually quite low, but it is at least free. But I still think there is a large pool of developers out there who may work for BigCo during the day, but want to tinker on something meaningful in the evenings or weekends. Biologists and bioinformaticians need to get better at advertising needs and harnessing the kind of community involvement that has made Linux/Apache/etc so successful.