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Six Laws of the New Software

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the listen-to-the-law dept.

LordFoom writes "Still suffering from post-dotcom stress disorder, I keep my eye out for gentle balm to sooth my ravaged psyche. The manifestos at ChangeThis are not it. The most popular manifestos range from irritating to enlightening, with none of them particularly comforting. In particular the recent Six Laws of the New Software have done my dreams of writing lucrative code no good - although it has changed my idea of what money-making code is."

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  1. Re:Here's another law to add by tacocat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Don't use a plug in. Use XPDF instead.

    Firefox will launch it for you but not auto-magically. I don't believe in auto-magic applications anymore. They bloat, they crash, they generally aren't free.

    First law of software, if it isn't free it's crap. There's nothing out there that I can't get for free and do what I NEED to do today. Nothing.

    As far as the next Microsoft. It's dead. Not because of ingenuity, but because the business model is dead. No one will ever pay as much for software again.