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Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-it-for-the-long-term dept.

Lansdowne writes "Dan Bricklin, author of VisiCalc, has written a great new essay identifying a need for software that needs to last for decades or even centuries without replacement. Neither prepackaged nor custom-written software is fully able to meet the need, and he identifies how attributes of open source might help to produce long-lasting 'Societal Infrastructure Software'."

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  1. hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hi. yeah i believe that is impossible. hi. first post.

  2. This is nothing new by slashman2004 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some files never die.. such as http://www.lagnet.co.za

  3. Re:Maybe it's needed, but who will develop it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's all very interesting, but how do you feel about violently sodomising Sir Roger Douglas?

  4. BENEDICT ARNOLDS OF THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    • Marc Andreessen made 100s of millions of dollars shortly after graduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
    • Brian Behlendorf decided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.
    • Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.

    Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?

  5. such programs already exist by slashman2004 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    such as the one of nick berg getting his head chopped off by crazy arab terrorists.. http://www.islamic.co.za

  6. Re:See also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm so glad you left the USA. This is natural selection at work. The weak are separated from the herd.