Great perspective! I think the proprietary realm is in great part moving toward the service-oriented model to keep up... maybe as a last gulp of air for most of them, since Google has rocking free services (and IMO does make their pay services worthwhile where applicable). To be clear, Google Apps are to be considered proprietary also, since I cannot seem to deploy them on my own server... and any application-service provider seems to need to provide some amount of interaction API's to keep pace with web 2.0^D^D^D3.14159... I do think licensing software will be around for a long time though, on the high-end.
Ben On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:07 PM, marbux <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Ben Barrett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks Paul, I again had the serious impression that some industry > snobbery > > (er, self-interest) might be generating that phrase "serious publishing". > > There's a human tendency to think that the way things are done now is > how things will be done in the future. I'll never forget a passage in > the International Typographical Union's 1952 edition of Lessons in > Printing, a seven-volume set of lessons that had to be completed by > all apprentices. The introduction to first volume, Lessons in Trade > Unionism, extolled the benefits of becoming a typographer. One of the > claimed benefits was that the typography trade would never be > obsoleted because human languages were too complex to be susceptible > to automation. > > Thirty years later, the ITU --- at the time the oldest trade union in > the U.S. --- dissolved because its membership had plummeted, almost > entirely attributable to automation. Most of its remaining membership > folded into the Communications Workers of America, a union with a > focus on digital information. > > Which was but the latest chapter in a long history of word processing > technological change dating to the birth of symbolism itself in > pre-history. > > I see in some ways a similar technological revolution evolving with > software business models. The proprietary software business model is > in decline, in no small part because it has a fundamental conflict > with the easy and inexpensive copying and dissemination of bits. Free > and open source software business models that embrace that fundamental > trait of bits are on the rise. > > Lots of people out there still stuck on proprietary software who > haven't noticed that the earth is moving beneath their desktops. :-) > > Best regards, > > Paul > > > -- > Universal Interoperability Council > <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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