[Excerpt] Q: What about the balance of power between software users and the industry that develops it? The industry has been in the driver's seat for so long. Will that change?
A: There will be a shift to customers having more of a voice in what happens to their software than they do now. Today, we take an extremely vendor-centric view of the software industry. Propose a new software product, and the first question you get is, "How will you be the next Microsoft with this?" People don't even stop to think that you can make a healthy living without being the next Microsoft, or that the function of software is to do a job for the customer, primarily. Full story at http://news.com.com/1200-1120-975446.html?tag=vs3_toclink -- Raju -- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
