>In my opinion, it feels like we are fishing with a bigger net, but we aren't fishing any deeper now than we were 3 years ago.
Well, who's fault is that? Pick a perspective and follow it deeply, write about it, and fish deeper. All it requires is commitment.
You could certainly pick a worse position that the OP's! Data is far more important than code - although I fear that this point is obscured by the "web service" trend that tends to spread data across many legal/economic/technical 'zones of control'.
Anyway, I hope that rather than just lament the state of things, that you take action to change it, at least for yourself.
Well, who's fault is that? Pick a perspective and follow it deeply, write about it, and fish deeper. All it requires is commitment.
You could certainly pick a worse position that the OP's! Data is far more important than code - although I fear that this point is obscured by the "web service" trend that tends to spread data across many legal/economic/technical 'zones of control'.
Anyway, I hope that rather than just lament the state of things, that you take action to change it, at least for yourself.