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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Differences in Software in the Last 20 Years

20 years in software is like, I don't know, is it to be compared to the dog years as a time seven? But it's a big progress. What's changed in 20 years? Everything and nothing to be flip about it. Attitudes and approaches that changed, moving stuff to the cloud. We have seen with the increasingly pervasive impact of computer technology on our lives, that the responsibility that's being put on developers to behave ethically has increased dramatically. It is possible to write software which is used for some very, very bad things. And we want to be thinking about that because we are really the community of software developers, we're in a position which is pretty unique.

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