Software innovation is dead?

There is an interesting article over at NewsForge (http://www.newsforge.com/programming/04/02/05/1828243.shtml?tid=105&tid=25) that talks about software innovation being dead.  I agree with the author on some of his points, but I feel that a lot of the new technologies like Longhorn and the .NET Framework will spark a new boom of innovative software over the next 10 - 15 years.

What are your thoughts?  I would love to hear from you on this subject.

Published Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:13 PM by bstahlhood

Comments

# re: Software innovation is dead?

I think he's just unfortunate to be growing up during an IT downturn. Wait until the venture capital comes back. And he's right with one thing - all of those developers out there working on Linux just seem to me (a non-developer) to be copying Windows features and not innovating.

But what about RSS and blogging? Are these not innovations of the last couple of years?

Sunday, February 08, 2004 5:41 AM by Cameron Reilly

# re: Software innovation is dead?

Yes software innovation is dead... and the US Patent Office wanted to close in the late 1800's because "everything that could ever be invented has been invented already." Riiiight.

Monday, February 09, 2004 11:23 AM by Darrell

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