Monday 10 March 2008

MeWare

Eric Sink claims in his article that there are three categories of software (actually I would say just ware as the idea is quite general

MeWare
The developer creates a ware. The developer uses it. Nobody else does.
As a case – a ware is created first of all for by the developer for himself and others opinion is not considered at all.

ThemWare
The developer creates a ware. Other people use it. The developer does not.
As a case – a ware is created first of all for others. The developer normally is not qualified enough to have own opinion on how the ware should work, look like etc. Therefore other tell him what to do, while he decided how it should/can be implemented.

UsWare
The developer creates software. Other people use it. The developer uses it too.
The ware is a combination of the developer and others ideas and thoughts.

NobodyWare
The developer creates software. Nobody uses it.
The ware is created to die right after it is released. A good examples of that our students works in universities and some wares created because of some government/bureaucracy regulations.

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