The Net Heads, on the other hand, mostly come out of the computer-and-software world.
Forbes.com: Some say the GPLv3 puts the free software world on a "collision course" with Hollywood.
Harris believes something similar is due in the enterprise software world.
In the past, many game designers have used simple rules to govern the behaviour of the goblins, imps, aliens or soldiers that populate their software world.
Autonomy would allow HP further reach into the software world.
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This allows the log to be read by a laptop computer and displayed as a journey on Google Earth, the software giant's popular world-mapping software.
He notes they are the largest supplier of movie editing software in the world.
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In truth, once Microsoft created its software the whole world advanced economically, including Los Angeles.
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If all that aggression was channelled into making better software, the world might be a happier and more efficient place.
Without software, the world's supply of hard assets and brains can't combine fast enough to produce wealth that outpaces population growth.
Of course, real-world software is more complicated than my example above.
"Razortooth Communications is excited to be a member of the SMILE Consortium to help create opportunities that bring easy-to-use "EDUTech" software to the world, " said Junko Sakai, PR spokesperson for Razortooth Communications, LLC.
Google gives away Android, the most popular smartphone software in the world, in the hope that it will steer phone users toward Google services, such as Maps and Gmail, and the ads it sells.
As software eats the world, every sort of engineering (and indeed, every sort of profession organized along lines suggested by the physical sciences, including fields like medicine) is becoming effectively a branch of computer science.
SAP, one of the largest enterprise software company in the world, recently announced its Q3 earnings results, with new software sales up 28%.
SCO, a tiny software firm in Utah, and Microsoft, the world's largest software firm, have only one thing in common.
The people who gather in them are often from the top software companies in the world.
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John Riccitiello is president of Electronic Arts, the largest video game software maker in the world.
But instead, picture a world where software platforms are available online and easily customizable.
Yet Keynote still acknowledges that Powerpoint is the dominant presentation software in the business world.
Then there is HTML5, a major upgrade of the basic software code for the World Wide Web.
It's taken on two of the biggest software companies in the world -- Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp.
The system will allow any software developer in the world to create a program for Google's new phone.
SAP, the largest German software firm and the world leader in enterprise-application programmes.
G-Fox, meanwhile, marks a decidedly different direction for the foundation, which has made its name in the world of software.
It is the creation of hundreds of engineers working for the last ten years at the best software company in the world.
In fact, SAS is the largest private software company in the world.
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Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world, which competes with other biggies like Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com.
In the new world, software and infrastructure service vendors will offer preassembled capabilities that can be inspected or tested at the convenience of the planning team.
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