It's going to take a lot of arguing but I predict we'll end up back where we started some time ago in the 70's:
The computer hardware is the asset.
Software engineer salaries are the operational expense of that asset.
Fanciful: It was only a brief period of time where some companies were able to resell the operational efforts of their in-house staff to other owners of computer hardware assets. Now it's all bespoke operational activities just like steel presses and sawmills.
The computer hardware is the asset.
Software engineer salaries are the operational expense of that asset.
Fanciful: It was only a brief period of time where some companies were able to resell the operational efforts of their in-house staff to other owners of computer hardware assets. Now it's all bespoke operational activities just like steel presses and sawmills.