This is the year to achieve and celebrate open access to peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal literature. Wait until you see what's coming in 2003. [FOS News]
Quote: "We have access to the greatest invention in human history, a storehouse of all human knowledge, and the primary effort by educators and publishers seems to be to make it as difficult to use as possible."
Do you live to code? If you don't and that's your job, move on. Bob Lewis, InfoWorld columnist, foresees doom for the million U.S. programmers. I must agree.You must compete on some combination of:
Here's the transcript of Bruce Sterling's speech at the O'Reilly Open Source convention. It's a very entertaining read, chock-full of metaphors describing the sorry state of the software development scene today. For example:
"Given that there is a ferocious triple dominance of Microsoft on operating systems, Intel in chips and Dell in hardware, the computer industry is finally getting boring. Almost as boring as my own business, the book business. It's still pretending to innovate, but its glamour routine has gotten all ritualized. The machines are slow, the programs are bloated, the changes are cosmetic, just like the heyday of Detroit's Big Three carmakers, so many years ago."
