And by the time Florida wrote about the creaative class, software writers had been added to the list too.

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Already software writers feel salary pressure from India, cartoon animators from China, classified ad salesmen from Ebay and so on.

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Software writers, chipmakers and dotcom companies all have a lot to lose if they don't stay on Microsoft's good side.

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In another domain, not far away from the chip and fiber-optics factories, software writers cooked up clever uses for the new powers.

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Black Duck's main offering, protexIP (IP, as in "intellectual property"), contains a library of open-source programs that software writers frequently incorporate into larger applications.

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The programs range from complex instructions for displaying pop-up windows to a 36-line memory-management utility from the open-source game Rooms of Doom that software writers love because it's more compact than the 72-line alternative.

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Software writers defected to more liberal dot-coms.

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Every few months the algorithm writers in Cambridge inject better software into the global network to make it shrewder at picking routes for Internet traffic.

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First there was the hassle with the Writers Guild over text-to-speech, and then Amazon threatened MobileRead with legal action for merely linking to software they didn't take kindly too.

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