Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 06, 2003 03:41 AM
Its a cute concept to make nice headlines but the hard fact is that no one is going to do anything as their primary job for free.
When it stops becoming fashionable and the bottom drops out.. all the people who jumped on this "money making" bandwagon touting their computer knowledge and couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag will go away, or be exposed as wannabes. People will need real programmers again soon enough and the demand will go up along with the salaries again. People will forever be skeptics of IT stocks due to the big bubble burst, but in the end complacency rules the roost, and things will level out.
You know the real reason the plumber can get away with asking for so much? Because when the toilet is backed up and your house starts to stink, you get desperate to get it fixed. Industries will have their IT "toilets" backed up soon enough. And they'll go back to wanting to pay reliable people for reliable results.
Something else to think about. Most people don't put Walmart tires on their BMWs. Yeah they got a deal, but when their stranded from their cheap tires, they'll have wished they paid for a brand name.
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Re:Developers will not make a living.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 06, 2003 03:41 AMWhen it stops becoming fashionable and the bottom drops out.. all the people who jumped on this "money making" bandwagon touting their computer knowledge and couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag will go away, or be exposed as wannabes. People will need real programmers again soon enough and the demand will go up along with the salaries again. People will forever be skeptics of IT stocks due to the big bubble burst, but in the end complacency rules the roost, and things will level out.
You know the real reason the plumber can get away with asking for so much? Because when the toilet is backed up and your house starts to stink, you get desperate to get it fixed. Industries will have their IT "toilets" backed up soon enough. And they'll go back to wanting to pay reliable people for reliable results.
Something else to think about. Most people don't put Walmart tires on their BMWs. Yeah they got a deal, but when their stranded from their cheap tires, they'll have wished they paid for a brand name.
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