So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.
What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.
I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !
All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
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
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.