Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2000, 269 pages
ISBN: 0-07-134806-9
Keywords: IT Architecture
Software firms routinely spring conditions on you after you've paid for their product,but before you can install it on your computer: conditions they won't let you see before you pay for it; conditions that absolve them for any wrongs the product may do to your data — and absolve you of any rights you have to ownership,or even use of the product you paid for.
The software industry maintains software police who can obtain warrants to enter your business and fine you hundreds of thousands of dollars if you are not using the software according to the industry's complex rules and keeping the IRS-like records that they require.
Why does the industry do this? Because they can. Because we let them. Consumers who would otherwise howl with outrage over any other kind of product that turned out to be so shabby have been conditioned to give the software industry a free ride. Veteran journalist and computer expert Mark Minasi now explains why it's time to punch some tickets.
As Upton Sinclair took on the meat packing industry in The Jungle, Mark Minasi exposes the conspiracy of contempt, complacency, and arrogance of the software industry. An industry now as powerful as the automobile industry was in the sixties and seventies — and as vulnerable.
Tells how the public (including senior management) gets tricked into buying lousy software. An obvious book with bad solutions, but I'm glad someone wrote it.
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