In the commercial software industry, the determinants of market share, ordered from most important to least important, are:
* Type of market
* Marketing
* Design
* Function
Programming, which is mainly concerned with function, code quality and documentation, is the least important. So, if your goal is to make money from your software, try to spend less time on programming. This is why most highly skilled programmers don't become wealthy from the code they produce. They are focusing on the irrelevant, which is code.