...fails to 'curtain' song swapping... If somebody read and spell-checked each part of this site, it would look so much more professional. It would probably boost the site's reputation and advertising revenue too.
This article puts a point on the current paradigm we live in: This is the *Information* Age. Software is a tool for storing, searching, manipulating, and creating information--not an end, but a means (except games). I think the profit model for the future will be based on content, custom applications, and portable/wireless hardware. The commodity software market (OSs, wordprocessors, web servers, and other ubiquitous applications) will cease to produce profit in the general case given the current quality trends found in the free alternatives. This is the life's blood of the Microsoft empire and this poses a huge threat to them and others like them. Unfortuneately for them, no US Legislation (or anything else) is going to stop this international trend.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way, the software/computer industry is in constant flux as it always has been!
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...fails to 'curtain' song swapping...
If somebody read and spell-checked each part of this site, it would look so much more professional. It would probably boost the site's reputation and advertising revenue too.
Don't be fooled--this is not a kaleidoscope! : )
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They're called axioms
This article puts a point on the current paradigm we live in: This is the *Information* Age. Software is a tool for storing, searching, manipulating, and creating information--not an end, but a means (except games). I think the profit model for the future will be based on content, custom applications, and portable/wireless hardware. The commodity software market (OSs, wordprocessors, web servers, and other ubiquitous applications) will cease to produce profit in the general case given the current quality trends found in the free alternatives. This is the life's blood of the Microsoft empire and this poses a huge threat to them and others like them. Unfortuneately for them, no US Legislation (or anything else) is going to stop this international trend.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way, the software/computer industry is in constant flux as it always has been!