“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoe–and ships–and sealing wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.”
An item titled the economics of software caught my eye on Rajesh Jain’s blog. Rajesh quotes from an article by Bryan Cantrill which begins with:
Software is like nothing else in the history of human endeavor unlike everything else we have ever built, software costs nothing to manufacture, and it never wears out. Yet …