The pace of change in [software] pricing models is accelerating. A lot of software companies are still trying to figure out how to do multi-core processors .?.?. and still get the same level of profitability they had before.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

It's hard for companies to compete and find software engineers.

You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.

It creates market incentives that will change how consumers see software.