[mcculley]

I responded to this question, but now I see that I was missing your point. (It doesn't help that the HN title changed to something other than the article title after it was posted.)

There are plenty of private industry shops maintaining software on a skeleton crew that needs no more features or a bigger market. Again, this article is assuming that all private industry only serves a growing market. There's plenty of software already written and being profitably maintained by skeleton crews to happy customers.