Posted by Johan Cyprich on 14 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Software piracy has been a problem from the earliest days of Microsoft. When they developed Altair BASIC, only about 10% of its users bought the software. The rest pirated it.
Bill Gates wrote a letter to the Altair community on February 3, 1976, explaining the need for buying software instead of just copying it. His arguments [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Apple’s iPhone is a very well marketed technology device. Its touch screen revolutionized the cell phone’s user interface. I’ve been told that there is a great deal of money to be made in creating iPhone applications, but I have to wonder if that’s true.
There are currently 3.3 billion active cell phones in the world. Luxembourg [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 09 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Business
Let’s face it. Most people hate change. They like to keep things the way they are because its safe. This way there are no surprises and no creative thinking is needed to solve problems. It’s really an issue of control. When everything is the same, we’re in control and don’t risk making fools of ourselves. [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 06 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Business
A friend of mine recently ate at a restaurant which I occasionally go to myself. He ordered the chicken curry with rice meal which cost around $7. The problem was that there was a lot of rice and curry, and not very much chicken. It was actually there, but in a very small amount which [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 06 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Business
In a 1992 keynote speech at COMDEX , Philippe Kahn gave a formula on software development productivity which he called Philippe’s Law. The law states that the productivity of a software developer in a team of N people is diminished by dividing it by the cube root of N. In other words,
This is very much [...]
