I don't buy this completely. I've seen software that doesn't solve any _business_ problem. LaTeX solves the typesetting problem, if you make that your business, sure, but LaTeX in itself was created to solve a problem not related to business, directly. If you wanna go meta and say everything is a business then I dunno what to say, it's just a blanket argument.
Also I've seen code golfs, Perl poems and like, so no I don't buy the author's viewpoint. In fact many open source projects were created to scratch some creative developer's itch and not to make money out of it.
This article seems to take a very narrow/rigid view of the computing industry/the computing community.
> This article seems to take a very narrow/rigid view of the computing industry/the computing community.
It takes a full-blown "play the market game" approach. There's nothing meaningful in life but doing business, and doing business is how meaningful things are achieved. As a programmer your job is to be a cog in a machine and also to tune the machine, and you shouldn't even dream of having any values other than this, because what the machine produces is by definition what's good and worthy.
Also I've seen code golfs, Perl poems and like, so no I don't buy the author's viewpoint. In fact many open source projects were created to scratch some creative developer's itch and not to make money out of it.
This article seems to take a very narrow/rigid view of the computing industry/the computing community.