Perhaps Apple products represent the progress of innovation. Since Henry Ford was young, the kids tinkered with gas engines and buggies. Now, automobiles are a mature technology and largely black boxes. Consumer electronics have gone the same way. There used to be a time when kids tinkered with radios. Now radios are black boxes. Progress, though, has not destroyed opportunities for innovation. On the contrary, opportunities have grown. Robot technology, for example, seems to be just beginning.
Would that be the fate of software? will that be a benefit, if software like Apache be closed? and only vendors with closed technology sell closed software?
