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> The amount of money we collectively leave on the table is staggering. Right if your goal is to make truckloads of money sure. Not all software professionals
by nsfyn55 12y ago
> The amount of money we collectively leave on the table is staggering.
Right if your goal is to make truckloads of money sure. Not all software professionals ascribe a great deal of value to this end. Many major advances in bringing high-end operating and distributed systems to the masses have come from "Open Source" movements. Is is that hard to imagine a more protectionist, profit-driven software industry where these technologies are shelved in favor of propping up current money makers? In effect denying cheap, high quality solutions to a generation of innovators and start up companies?
As a side note I found your call for unionization to be a flawed comparison. The organizations you've alluded to (AMA and ABA) deal in inelastic goods that enjoy popular legal protections. This is for good reason, no one wants brain surgery from an amateur, but I might give one a shot at standing up my wordpress site.
- gaius 12y agoYou have managed to completely miss my point. Truckloads of money ARE being made. The only question is who controls them. If a programmer creates a product worth millions but only gets a £20k salary, where has the rest of the money gone? Are you really so altruistic that you would rather your boss and his boss got rich, than taint yourself with money? As I say if you don't want it donate it to good causes but either way YOU should control what happens to as much money as possible, because if you don't, someone else will.
- nsfyn55 12y agoI think it is you that has missed the point. Its not about who gets the money, but whether the initiative would have survived at all in a corporate environment. Sometimes the only way to jump over the heads of the paymasters is to do something for free.
- nl 12y agomy point Wrong browser window maybe? :)