According to the letter from UCITA's Ring, the following software industry organizations are supporting the draft -- industry antipiracy body the Business Software Alliance (14 members, among those Microsoft Corp, Lotus Development Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc.), the Software Information Industry Association, Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition and the Computer Software Industry Association.
Besides open source, Eazel is thus also riding the other big trend that is changing the computer industry: software will increasingly be delivered as an online service and on a subscription basis.
The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
"Now we have a good a idea of what it would be like to have the government run the computer industry, " said Jonathan Zuck of the Association for Competitive Technology, which represents software and hardware companies.
Aaron Taylor's company, Gogamingo, develops specialist software for the fast-growing and lucrative computer gaming industry.
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In the computer industry the value has migrated from hardware to software.
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And in the computer industry, where success depends partly on support from third-party software developers and compatibility with other machines, low profits and low market share are as final as a pair of death knells.
It was a long slog for Apple to become a force to be reckoned within the computer industry, and it got there by introducing the world to intuitive software that created a delightful user experience.
Just as biotechnology and software have sprung up outside the mainstream drugs and computer industries, so the industry that has grown up on voice circuits will find it hard to transfer its grip to the new world of data networks.
Just as the software itself has become more solid, so support for Linux within the computer industry has also been growing.
The judge in the American government's antitrust trial of the software behemoth ruled not only that it used its monopoly power to stifle competition and innovation in the computer industry, but also that Microsoft's business practices during the 1990s harmed consumers.
When the judge interprets the law on this issue as a next step in the case, much will be at stake for computer programmers trying to build interoperable devices, for consumers who rely on these devices and for the future of the software industry and cloud computing.
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