I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But th...
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
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.
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation ...
The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
We are; therefore, we evolve.
Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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.
