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Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.
In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.
I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
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.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.