Archive 2005
Blake Ross on Today’s Software
Blake Ross is one of the forefront developers of Firefox, so he should know a thing or two about software.
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Archive Written in 2005 and kept as it was. Links and products mentioned here may no longer exist.
Ludicrous files this page under Archive 2005. It carries a publication date of June 14, 2005, and 65 pages on this domain share that year. The section is 65 pages deep.
No attempt has been made to expand the original note: what was written is what is kept.
In date order it follows BMW 325i and comes before The Summer Burn 2005, which is how the section is meant to be read.
He’s just written a bit of a rant about the state of software today after some guy asked him what he thought “the next big thing” would be.
It should be clear from my writing how I feel about software in 2005: it’s atrocious. Here’s what I mean: put a digital picture and an instant message window side by side and ask Mom to share the picture. Even though the windows are approximately five pixels apart, sharing them is about as intuitive as a W2 form. It’s actually easier to share a picture sitting on a server in China than it is to share your own stuff.
Read the rest of his article entitled “The next big thing is not my concern”.
What follows below is the rest of the section, so a page that turns out to be too short to answer a question at least points at the pages next to it. The desk does not rewrite figures in old material; an out-of-date number is more useful than an invented current one.