Well, ironically that manager was just sacked - and my resignation was one of the reasons alleged for this (it was just an excuse in my opinion). Even more ironically, his role will now be filled by a Director who is MUCH worse in that sense.

So, I'm pretty doubtful that any lesson will be learned from there, because it's most likely the owner who set up that compensation policy. He built the company on selling hardware, and I guess that he doesn't understand that with software the quality of your people is almost everything (unlike with hardware that you resell).