There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.
People are getting patents on things that are too general.
Making things open-source brings the cost down.
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.
It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.
Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.