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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: M.B.A's versus Dyed in the Wool Hackers
Summary: software
Message-ID: <8258@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 18 Jan 90 16:58:54 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA
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In article <13014@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, markv@gauss.Princeton.EDU (Mark VandeWettering) writes:
> 
> All this talk about shareware has gotten me thinking a bit about the 
> reasons why people write software.  
> 
> During my education and now my professional career, I have seen a large
> number of people enter the field whose main motivation was to make money.
> Let's face it.  There are bucks to be made here.  There are many ways
> a guy can turn a good living, even people who have relatively little 
> talent.

With a de-emphasis on defense and an impending slow-down in the
defense industry I wouldn't be too surpised if software vendors didn't
start laying off tons of their dead-weight "computer professionals"
and start requiring their remaining software people to become more
versitile and productive.

Come to think of it, this also means that companies will be loosing a
LOT of their dead-weight middle management and require managers to
become more versitile and technically proficient.

On the whole I view this as beneficial (but then I have a job right?).
Saves the tax-payer money and enhances the quality of all software
products.  I'm tired of dealing with incompetent vendors and crummy
products that promise the world, but offer the same old bugs.