software

Think of this as Volume 18, Number 19 of the newsletter I have written weekly since March, 1997. Enjoy.  ...

Imagine what it will mean when people around the world learn to Just Google It – what will happen to...

As the halo over open source grows, will the big companies continue to play nice? And if they don't, what...

Bans against reverse engineering, like the one Skype recently applied, are a serious security risk.

Open source is a direct threat to market research. Rather than acknowledge this reality, firms like Forrester, Gartner and IDC...

A private model is driven by private concerns, while a public model is subject to political difference. Which works best?...

The nature of software is there are always multiple ways to do something. So software patents are, at the end...

Once clouds are ubiquitous – and virtualizing storage as well as servers makes them so – then clouds gain power,...

Right now the tech world is finely balanced between western software and branding on the one hand and eastern hardware...

If you have an ecosystem, a resistant network of inter-connected bodies helping each other, that's better than a monolithic entity.