Re: Future of Dolphin Survey

On 9/14/07, J J <[email protected]> wrote:

> These are the "chained in a cubicle writing the same boring software over
> and over" I was talking about. :)

I've been doing bespoke software for my whole working life
(in 30+ years, I've never worked for a "software company").
I haven't, for the most part, found it boring at all, and in many
cases extremely rewarding.

> Every actor that's in a cheesy restaurant
> is there because they dream of some day being the next big name on the big
> screen.  Every (good) college football player puts his body on the line game
> after game with the hope of making it in the NFL.  I like that programmers
> can have this kind of dream of making it big too.

Can't say it ever interested me.  I just wanted to do good, interesting
work and get paid enough to live on and feed a number of modest
habits.

> There are ways.  You can even become extremely wealthy with free software as
> Google has.

Note that Google isn't a software company either; it's a high-technology media
company.

> But I don't think nearly as many people will make it big the
> way they did, as can by simply making a nice product and selling it.

"The advantages of [this] method [...] are great; they are the same as
the advantages of theft over honest toil."  --Bertrand Russell

> And besides, why restrict yourself to only doing the things listed on that
> site to make money?  There is nothing wrong with writing and selling
> proprietary software.

I think otherwise.

Dixi.

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