Do you remember the joke from the days when Microsoft was poised to take over the world? We’re talking end of 20th century here. Bill Gates had said that if only the car industry had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 Read more …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Who owns software written by software (part 2)
In my last post, I raised the question “who owns software written by software?” based on the observation that there is a new development in the software market: applications that are fully written by other software (“Writing Software”), and that it is not quite clear who would own the result (“Written Code”). Why is it Read more …
Who owns software written by software?
About a year ago, I was at a presentation of a number of start-ups at the Brussels Enterprise Agency. One of the enterpreneurs presenting his very cool software product then said something that really amazed me. “One of the advantages of our application is that it is built automatically, through other software. So, there are Read more …