End of software? No

What happened to software? Why is there so few creative software (2010)? Are we at the end of software? What are the forces which led to this situation, looking like a bit step backward to the epoch of non-programmable accounting machines? Is there a way out of this situation? Yes, and a very simple one: make good software. With invention. Developing models and abstractions. It is difficult but absolutely possible. It this re-start of software I wish to explore here in this blog. Welcome

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sexta-feira, 18 de janeiro de 2013

Open Source ideas

An anthropologist view of Open Source: Want to understand open source? Live with its developers

How open source is driving the future of cloud computing

And... MOOCS, which are open educations: A lesson from 2012: Open education brings power of knowledge to the masses and MOOC Skepticism Persists Among University Presidents, Despite Rapid Growth Of Online Courses In 2012

quarta-feira, 25 de janeiro de 2012

Is Open Source Easier Than Commercial Software?

Some points made in this post:

Control and vendor lock-in
Predictability at the expense of innovation
and more on ease of use

Main point: control

Google acelerando o TCP

Ver artigo. E observar que a proposta é open source, no espírito da Web.

Aliás, uma pergunta: a Web é open source?

Resposta: é o melhor exemplo de open source - protocolos, não código - e uma caso estrondoso de sucesso.

E mais, vindo da academia

quarta-feira, 4 de janeiro de 2012

Open means control

Post "Richard Stallman Was Right All Along" by Thom Holwerda. Makes a very good point comparing free software with the decrease in civil liberties now (jan/2012). And an important point showing that open software means control. If we want control of the increasingly present software, it has to be open.