Dear all,
The intensive discussion "Corporate madness, ..." draws my attention to increasingly bad feelings of
about the software business. I have different opinions on shareware, open source projects etc.
Business needs to make money - so do i and there is nothing bad with it. However, sometimes i feel
really enslaved as a customer or user:
- Corporate Identity is prior to useability (see the november gray interfaces of Adobe)
- Software i depend on for my business is not fixed (think a about that situation with cars)
- Paying for the sw for long years does not make it my property (well that's the same with renting a house) - but then they should not call it 'purchase'.
- New features are introduced just to be able to 'sell' a new version, despite the fact that long lasting requirements are not considerd for implementation at all.
All in all: friss oder stirb (feed or die)
For me the worst scenario will be SAAS (Software as a service), that is the sw is located in the
cloud.
- This is the end of Personal Computing.
- There will be no possibility to work with a version which i have learned and with which i am efficient.
- There will be no chance for plug-ins -- THE horror scenario for FrameMaker (and many others).
Just my few cents...
Klaus Daube
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