FOSS-M-B: Write Software for Normal People
March 16th, 2006 | by mj |12:00:
Bruce Parens was quite entertaining from his stories of subverting Pixar time to write patches for Debian to his lecture on the evils of software patents. Most applicable to a software company is certainly the patent issue - it takes, on average, $5 million to defend a software patent. Their use as obfuscated roadblocks to the development of future software is in complete opposition to the spirit of patents as a whole.
So yeah, you software developers. Write software for normal people already!
Now it’s time for a break. And these seats are REALLY uncomfortable.