Does Open Source Separate Business From Technology?

hornerj asks: "I've noticed quite a few pundits commenting on how the Open Source movement goes against the standard business model. I've come to believe that it not only goes against it, it rewrites it. Could it be possible that, with the shift from marketing software to marketing services, the business suits are being forced out of the technology pipeline? If IT businesses shift to providing services, will the suits, which historically make software releases buggy, bloated, and premature, be taken out of the decision process? Without a suit forcing an unready software release, it only makes sense that software will get better and better."

Comments

Bullshit (and I'm not trolling)

[guran]

There are good "suits" and bad suits, just like there are good programmers and bad programmers.

Good programmers makes really good apps, good suits get those apps sold and are good at seeing what what services (and apps) people are willing to pay for.

Some people are good at both.

You won't make it very far with exellent code without marketing. Neither with exellent marketing of lousy software. (No M$ does not make lousy software. It is not the *best* but for most people it is good *enough*)

Suits follow demand. If they are leaving your area it is a tell tale sign that you will have serious trouble making a living there in a near future.

(That does not mean you should stop coding, just that you'll need a day job)