Winsteps
Friday, August 19, 2005
The Power of Us
| "The Power of Us" was the cover headline of Business Week, June 20 2005. The subhead is "Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business." Mass collaboration has certainly helped the development of Winsteps. For about 15 years, it was graduate students in University classrooms (and their Professors) who prompted the introduction of new features and reported bugs. Now it is the vast Internet community. Winsteps and Facets are being applied in innovative ways. Thousands of users are quick to make suggestions and report bugs. Everyone benefits. "A hypothesis has met its supreme test when it solves not only the problem it was designed to cover, but also the cognate problems that arise during further investigation." Odell Shepard (1923) "A Youth to Fortune and to Fame Unknown", Modern Philology, 20, 372. The same could be said about computer software. |  Business Week Cover Photo Illustration by David Rudes/BW |
