Pop Loser Vol. 7, No. 5 - Softwearing.

Softwearing. Vol. 7, No. 5 When the music industry got greedy and technology allowed, we broke it with Napster and eventually achieved an unstable balance with Spotify, a tense peace that is in the process of collapsing because they also got greedy. When the movie industry got greedy and technology allowed, we broke it with BitTorrent and eventually achieved an unstable balance with Netflix, a tense peace that is in the process of collapsing because they also got greedy. Without looking, I’m gonna guess many, many industries have their own version of this, and right now it’s software’s turn. I believe in hating the game and not necessarily its players, unless the players are also assholes. For example: Adobe. You don’t reverse engineer the core of Adobe’s entire software lineup and hand it out for free unless you really hate Adobe. Fortunately, everybody really hates Adobe, the gold standard in making software bloated and hostile to its own users and somehow still cranking up pricing…