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The software industry doesn't need innovationThe software industry doesn't need innovationPosted Apr 25, 2003 15:31 UTC (Fri) by stevenj (guest, #421)Parent article: Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux (News.com)
...so much as it needs good implementations. This is not to knock innovation, or to agree that it can't happen in the free software community, but there's really no shortage of good ideas floating around for software. Every person who has used a computer probably has a few notions for what they would like to see. What's lacking are people to implement these ideas, to implement them well, and to implement them in a way that's not anchored to some proprietary codebase that won't talk to anything else and/or will disappear and become useless in a few years. As someone else pointed out, it's hard to identify any widely used software product (Microsoft or otherwise) that is not a re-implementation of a basically much older idea. And that's exactly how it should be. The scary thing for Microsoft is that free software implementations improve more-or-less monotonically. It is used to competitors that are reset to zero every few years when Microsoft runs them out of business.
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