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The value isn't in the code (2022)

It takes time and a lot of skill to write great code, so surely that code is valuable, right? Wrong. You might love it and nurture it, protecting it from harm, but I’m afraid that code of yours is potentially worthless. Why? Read on.

The work took a team of just 7 people 6 months to develop and the result was a cross platform solution that could deliver content, email, calendering and messaging. It was ahead of its time, and also supported voice interaction via mobile phone and delivery of content via WAP. That company had already spent longer than 6 months with a significantly larger team trying to create the same thing without success.

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