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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Closed standards are the problem. Not knowing how the data is saved, and not being able to find out, should not be accepted by any organisation.
Well said and I agree completely. I felt the article was well-written, but the arguments for open source software were less convincing than the arguments for open standards or open file formats. I don't particularly mind if the software is closed-source as long as the file or data it handles is open and fully documented. HTML is a perfect example of this - an open standard that has spawned thousands of closed and open-source applications. I firmly believe that the Web would not have grown so rapidly were it not for the simple, open specification of HTML.