Complaining about markets

As i sit here chuggingaway on a windows XP installation, i think about how wrong things have gone in the software world, and maybe the general marketplace.

In the physical product marketplace there are very real limits on amount of value producers of goods can give to consumers. Things cost money to make, materials have to be paid for, etc.

The software world was supposed to change this. Create something once and instantly without cost it can be replicated to everyone without incremental cost. This isnt the way it worked out.

Not forgetting that some companies have made computing soo popular that you can get near supercomputer performance for a few grand, I think that we've gone too far in the direction that Mr. G. would have software go. It's unfair to relegate the user to use products that they cannot themselves improve.

That's what's most frustrating about windows and these other proprietary products. There are very smart users out there that could help to make them better, but they are shackled, without access to the code, and thus cannot cooperate with the software development houses to build better software.

This post is raw, and contains random thoughts, so think of it what you will. It's the kind of tired ranting you'll get from me after a long day at work.