So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.
There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors.
Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.
Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.
