Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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Not all fights between open Standards and closed Standards are between OSS and MS. Just because every Open standard out there has been perverted by MS isn't any reason to assume that. Why are there IE only websites because MS perverted HTML, Javascript, ASP, for their own goals. Not to improve the products but to make them their own.
The Ideal Software would prevent specific vendor lock-in. That list of companies includes, Apple, MS, Palm, Symbian, & every other software vendor. Some are better than others at following the standards but all are trying to create the standards. Instead of working together to create good software, they fight each other to create the next standard.