- Software wars
Software wars describes a state where
software authors and users argue over which software is best for a purpose and should thus be used by everyone for that task.In March 1998,
Li-Cheng Tai created a "map", a general overview of the world of software as a computer graphic and titled it "Software Wars". Li-Cheng Tai stopped updating it in 2003. It was updated bySteven Hilton in 2006. The detailed graphical index of market history shows past and ongoing market competitions betweenfree software andproprietary software , includingMicrosoft andApple Inc. . It is an example of theEvil Empire genre of humor that is endemic inhacker culture whereBill Gates , the founder ofMicrosoft , is represented as the ruler of the evil Galactic Empire of theStar Wars movies or, as in this case, as one of the Borg of the television series. Despite the obviously humouristic purpose of the maps, it does have a remarkably well-researched and accurate portrayal of real and complex economic and market battles emerging since the Internet made globally-distributed free and open source software development strategies economically feasible. The newest version of the map lackshyperlinks , but its keywords and their relationships to each other provide a rich starting point for anyone interest in researching the history and economics of information technology.Similar "wars" also take place between the proponents of various hardware platforms such as the PC and the Macintosh.
pecific software wars
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Browser wars : Describes the actions ofMicrosoft ,Mozilla ,Apple Inc. , and Opera continuing to have a rearmament cycle of trying to create the authoritativeweb browser .
*Editor war ,unix editor users are divided into two big groups. The users ofvi and the users ofemacs .
*Desktop wars ,KDE andGNOME desktop environments has the same effect.
*Operating system advocacy ee also
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Format war External links
* [http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.pngSoftware Wars by Li-Cheng Tai]
* [http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/ Software Wars by Steven Hilton]
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