http://jorendewachter.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:24:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon announced last week that it has sold more e-books than hardcover books. At the same time, the Wylie literary agency has announced a number of big publishing deals bypassing the traditional publishing houses, and going straight into online publishing. So, e-books are now more important than traditional books. More e-books are ... http://jorendewachter.com/will-technology-kill-book-publishers/ Business models for software are typically pretty simple: the software is sold under a License, as a Service or in a combination of License and Services (e.g. SaaS). I believe this model is very unsatisfactory. Why? Because it does not really distinguish between the different aspects that constitute the specific value proposition ... http://jorendewachter.com/business-models-for-software-3d-it/ In earlier posts on this blog, I have written  about who owns software written by software. It is my position that such “Written Code” falls outside the protection of copyright. This is because the Written Code is generated by Writing Software, without human intervention on the actual choice of code used ... http://jorendewachter.com/software-written-by-software-%e2%80%93-for-real-this-time/ No copyright! As we’ve seen in my last blog, my position is that software written by other software falls outside the scope of protection of copyright. Why? Because no human intervention occurs in the actual generation of the code itself, which means no human creativity intervenes at that level. There is human creativity in ... http://jorendewachter.com/software-written-by-software-help-no-copyright/ In the two previous posts, I discussed that there is a new development: software that is developed automatically, by other software, based on human instructions, but without humans writing any actual code; if we want to know how owns that code, we need to look primarily at copyright. In the mean time, also, ... http://jorendewachter.com/who-owns-software-written-by-software-part-3/