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Lack of Innovation in IT Holding Companies Back?
bednarz writes to mention that Google's Dave Girouard, manager of enterprise business, is blaming a "crisis" in IT and the "insane complexity" of technology, among other things, for the lack of innovation that could allow businesses to grow. "A lot of things that people think of as core IT functions need to disappear into the ether so that the IT organization can properly focus on the value-added [activities]," he said. "Information security, as critical as it is, needs to be taken care of by organizations who live and die by it, who invest the money, time, resources and staff. Why should every company in the world have to build up their own expertise and have to maintain servers and provide security?"
The simple shocking ugly truth is that 90% of the problems in the IT industry are caused specifically because of proprietary crap being rammed down peoples throat. Get rid of copyrights and patents (which are a fradulent property right and incentive to begin with), and this problem would be solved in 5 seconds flat.
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You misspelled "Muslims".
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