From Software is hard to escape these days. The studio is well-known as the developers of the beloved and challenging Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls, and the upcoming Bloodborne. They’ve elevated From ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

*What an article! Why, I didn't know a tenth of this. *Amazing how early the software business assumed its customary forms of obscurantism, rejectionism, skullduggery by the installed base, and ...

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Everyone takes it for granted that the natural order of business is to sell software just as though it were a physical product, shipping it out as a manufactured item and charging a one-time perpetual ...

Truthfully, the Supreme Court decision in Alice can only be described as an intellectually bankrupt. The Supreme Court never once used the word “software” in its decision. The failure to mention ...

Today, software is ubiquitous and has been for more than half a century. From the early EDVAC system to the current Apple Watch, every computing device has needed software. However, software ...

Despite what you may have heard to the contrary, software patents have a very long history in the United States. Computer implemented processes, or software, has been patented in the United States ...

From his earliest gaming memories playing Spyro 2 on the PlayStation, to being obsessed with the swing-out animations in Marvel's Spider-Man, Cameron has always been, and continues to be, in love with ...

In 1976, Warner Communications bought the video game company Atari, much to the dismay of game designer Warren Robinett. Upset that Warner wasn’t planning on giving him credit in the game “Adventure,” ...

Nearly three decades ago, before the rise of Great Plains Software as a powerhouse, before the billion-dollar deal that brought Microsoft to Fargo, a 26-year-old Doug Burgum got a glimpse of the ...

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...