Where are the values of software and programmers?

More and more people feel that they are working in China.ProgramThey are boring and cannot even find the value of Chinese software companies and programmers.
Let's take a look at a simple example. The company took a small case and spent two months reporting 20 people to the customer. Two months later, the project was accepted and the Customer Delivered 0.3 million. The actual situation is that the company is a small company, and the core developer is you alone, and two students just graduated from the school to help you, I also spent 3000 RMB to hire an artist to design the background artist.
Direct labor costs: Your salary is calculated as RMB 10 thousand/month, and you will pay RMB 20 thousand in two months. The monthly salary of graduates is 2500 RMB, 2500 RMB * 2*2 = 10 thousand RMB, and the total cost of the artist is 3000 RMB. Other costs: The company's water, electricity, office equipment wear and other related, 10 thousand, the market, management costs, etc. are counted as 50 thousand.
The sum is 93 thousand, and the 30 minus 9.3 equals 0.217 million, so the company's profit is actually very high.
However, in fact, this software company may not be able to afford the salaries of these people for a year, because there are too many software companies like China. It seems that many bosses think it is better to open software to public a house decoration company or a small teahouse.
What about programmers? You will always remember that the boss earned 0.217 million yuan, but you can only get 20 thousand yuan. You may find yourself at a loss or even a little hurt. I feel that your knowledge and wisdom have been exploited by the boss. In any case, you will be a little unhappy.

Let's take a look at an example. You spent two months writing a program. Your work attitude, enthusiasm, time and energy are far more than the above 0.3 million projects, because this project is yours and is also of interest to you. However, when you take this project to the market, users think very well. However, because users are all engaged in software, they say yes when you give them free of charge, but when you say you want to charge a little fee (dozens of dollars), you get scolded. The most ridiculous thing is that you receive a fee. When you feel a little gratified, you find that your software is sold on the Internet as another person. You feel like you are being bullied by your peers, but you cannot cry. I think many of my peers have experienced such examples.

Finally, let's look at an example that happened to my friends. They developed a webim System Based on ext technology. So they took a try and pushed the system into the market. Their existing customers were mainly software development companies, and the system was successfully transplanted to some enterprise application systems, they collected a certain amount of consulting fees, and the feedback was good. After the customer integrates the system into their own system, they can easily add a quotation to this IM function module (which is certainly n times higher than the cost ), it is also a very popular feature.
Vifir has many users who are also interested in this function, so they recently extracted the system from vifir.com separately and compiled the system development documentation and the source code together, it is provided to programmers at a relatively low price. But the problem arises. Many people say that this web IM is not worth the money and that there are so many other springCodeSo many documents are not only completely open-source, but all of them are free of charge. Some people think that what's worse is that the website vifir.com is now called an "open source person", so we should open-source all things, and even many people come to visit vifir.com for the full-site source code, they spent a lot of time explaining to him the official website of vifir.com.Source codeIs not open.

Based on the above three examples, I feel a little confused. Where is the value of software and programmers? Who will pay for the hard work of programmers. The boss does not want to, the customer does not want, and his peers do not seem to want to. I feel that colleagues are more keen on cracking and are keen on free.