Tag: software

The Cloud Czars see themselves as mere conduits, as pipes. They take no responsibility for the medium they’ve created. Which ...

The power of software must be controlled, or it will surely control us.

The decision by LiveCode to “abandon” open source, putting their old code in an archive and building proprietary above it, ...

Schwetak Patel ieems to think faster than he can talk, and talk faster than reporters interviewing him can type. He ...

Forget the DNA tests, I suggested. Just stop smoking. I imagined Tobias’ ready reply -- forget the DNA tests, just ...

Getting people paid, and getting people taught, should be where the profits from Moore’s Law of Software are going. But ...

A lot of jobs and even industries are going to disappear, and the America which comes out of the coming ...

It is time for technology’s policy preferences to become explicit, and for the industries to start arbitraging this country, arbitraging ...

The open source contradiction may never be bridged, but over time it gets easier to jump over. You learn who ...

In 2012 the software industry is like an iceberg. Most of it is under the water. Not underwater, mind you. ...