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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.

2 Comments

  • 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?

  • 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.

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