Zitat des Tages über Software:
I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.
In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.
As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web.
We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.
I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.
In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.
I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.