“To paraphrase a famous maxim, ‘Oh, what a difference a decade
makes.’“The emergence of the Internet over the last ten years has
brought extraordinary changes to software development. Because of
the Internet, large amounts of useful, well-engineered code are now
widely available, and much of that code is available for free or
under generous licensing terms. Moreover, there’s little
distinction these days between developers and end-users: end-users
have capitalized on the newly-networked world to take an active
role in the development and enhancement of products that many of us
use every day.
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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