Lately - I’m spending a considerable amount of time to clear my perspective on the issue of developing and selling software (t d f) vs. providing consulting (t d f) services. Most of you, my dear readers, know about the causes of this reasoning (those irritating issues with Peter Pollinger my not yet ex-business partner and another person at an Austrian ministry).
Sometimes there are those moments you didn’t anticipate that make you think about your fundamental believes. And we should be grateful for those moments of slowdown and re-evaluation.
Does it make sense to develop software in a small team in Europe or elsewhere? Does it make sense to subscribe to 1, 2, or more different pieces of software that fulfill the needs of you clients and apply them just like tools? Is it worth open sourcing you work (that sits on the shoulders of others)?
One thing is for sure: on first sight it is something special to develop software. Even better if it is functional, stable and offers broad opportunities to deploy it. On the other hand: does it make a real difference to invest time/money/spirit in developing software if there is so much already provided worldwide. Wouldn’t it be better and more valuable and sustainable for the whole of us to subscribe to existing codes, help improve and distribute those lines. And to help people to understand those lines of code or better what they can afford.
Is it eventually more useful to act as an interpreter (t d f) than as a poet? But then what is poetry (t d f) after all. And is there a difference between those two? And if: would it make a difference.
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