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Category Archives: Software Business
The Gradual Death of IE6 Just Got a Nitro Boost
Google is killing off IE6 for Google Apps. Excellent!
The New Wheel: A Software Engineering Parable
In the early days of humankind, a young man excitedly ran up to the leader of the tribe. "You won't believe it! I have an awesome invention! See, I know that our parents invented the wheel, but the wheel has all kinds of problems. It's too hard to produce. It rolls away on you when you want to stand still. It's hard to understand and to describe to people—'it's like a thin slice of smooth rock with a hole in the middle' isn't exactly easy to grok."
The Self-Destructive Side of Open Source Software
There's a bit of a misunderstanding about the economics open source software. Most importantly, people seem to be missing that commercializing open source software seems to be fundamentally self-destructive.
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Marc Palmer: “Do we need a commercial market for Grails Plugins?”
If you are a Grails developer who hasn’t read Marc Palmer’s blog post, “Do we need a commercial market for [...]
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