The internet "bubble" has a similar effect as bad patents. And the lack of taxation has been a contributory factor to the expansion of the bubble. The problem, as i see it, is that the demand for developers is so strong that firms are allowing programmers to get away with bad programming. The result is lots of companies investing into disaster. But for the "bubble" firms would not be as willing to tolerate the odds on project failure at such a high rate (3/4 I've heard - maybe higher). And our skill would be more susceptable to being "professionalised", which is something we are missing right now. Hence a person can learn html and Javascrip badly and then go onto design a web site for big bucks. This should be much more difficult to do than it is.
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The internet "bubble" has a similar effect as bad patents. And the lack of taxation has been a contributory factor to the expansion of the bubble. The problem, as i see it, is that the demand for developers is so strong that firms are allowing programmers to get away with bad programming. The result is lots of companies investing into disaster. But for the "bubble" firms would not be as willing to tolerate the odds on project failure at such a high rate (3/4 I've heard - maybe higher). And our skill would be more susceptable to being "professionalised", which is something we are missing right now. Hence a person can learn html and Javascrip badly and then go onto design a web site for big bucks. This should be much more difficult to do than it is.