Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.