Software Maintenance is a Solution, Not a Problem

... In most computing installations, the people who do maintenance tend to be those who are new on the job or not very good at development. There's a reason for that. Most people would rather do original development than maintenance because maintenance is too constraining to the creative juices for most people to enjoy doing it. And so by default, the least capable and the least in demand are the ones who most often do maintenance...

Software Maintenance is a Solution, Not a Problem

This article gives another point of view in Software Maintenance.