More likely, you're going to find that "star" or "celebrity" programmers usually end up starting consulting shops - where they're busy doing business development, speaking at conferences, juggling issues on GitHub, writing OSS code, blogging, etc, and other developers are actually doing the coding for the clients.
It's completely on the up-and-up, but it's basically the same thing.
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More likely, you're going to find that "star" or "celebrity" programmers usually end up starting consulting shops - where they're busy doing business development, speaking at conferences, juggling issues on GitHub, writing OSS code, blogging, etc, and other developers are actually doing the coding for the clients.
It's completely on the up-and-up, but it's basically the same thing.