[nostrademons]

I doubt a union would get much traction as long as the software industry is in as much flux as it is in, and boundaries between engineers, entrepreneurs, and financiers are as porous as they are. It's not uncommon for someone to be an engineer for a few years, a technical cofounder for a few more years, and then a venture capitalist later on. Many, many people in tech (Andreesen, PG, John Doerr, Eugene Kleiner, Bill Joy) have sat in all 3 seats.

[sawthat]

Actually it's incredibly uncommon. There are hundreds of thousands of engineers, far fewer "technical cofounders" and even fewer venture capitalists.