>>I think that trend has changed somewhat over the years, but it's still a valid point.
Ask a room of developers "who is creating something innovative that doesn't already exist" and many will raise their hands. But they're fooling themselves. IT innovation was commonplace 20 years ago. Not so much now, unless small iterative improvements or missing features finally being added are a new definition of innovation.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
