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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Software products are not comparable to traditional manufactured goods. Closed fileformats - no matter how precious their "intellectual property" is to their owners - work against competition. If there is patents-laws protecting intellectual properties, there should also be laws that prevent patent-owners abusing markets with this type of "fileformat-traps".