Comments on: Top 10 Software Innovators of All Time

By: mario

mario — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:10:29 +0000

I agree with Michal, Every one might see what they can see and feel what they can touch. If they feel comfort and confident about a product then the creator/innovator of product is appreciated, no matter who first came for the idea, almost people need useful things that they can use and implement right away not the brilliant things but useless/unpractical. Love You Guys :)

By: Michal

Michal — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:45:49 +0000

Dear Tim Stewart and others,
I think the important thing to realize is that it’s not the idea that matters, it’s the execution. Which in turn means that innovator is not the one who thinks of something but the one who executes the idea so well that people will actually use his product.
There was a internet search sites before Google, there was video online before youtube, there was GUI before Mac and Windows, there was mp3 players before iPod, there was databases before Oracle and so on and so on. So once again.
IT IS NOT THE IDEA THAT MATTERS, IT IS THE EXECUTION

By: great leap forward

great leap forward — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:35:25 +0000

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By: Ralph H

Ralph H — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:56:12 +0000

Marketing is 50% of the innovation, but so is economic necessity.
History rewards the winners:

Keep the Steves (Jobs, Wozniak) together.
K&R at Bell Labs, they were reacting to AT&T’s withdrawal from Multics.

But I would add Stallman for the GNU project, because his GPL innovation means software that Google and Yahoo and Apple now rely on is available for them to adopt (and share)

Listing Brin and Page without Filo and Yang.

What about John McCarty at Stanford? His Lisp language is the foundation of Map and Reduce (which is what Google built their
scalable solution on)

Bill Joy at Berkeley and later Sun?

IBM is not listed:
(Phil Estridge broke the mold (for IBM) and outsourced portions of the IBM PC offering – notably the OS)

By: timm

timm — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:46:07 +0000

Re: To be innovative, you have to do something non-obvious.

The irony of invention is that it often looks obvious after the fact. There were video sharing sites before YouTube (a friend of mine started one), but YouTube had that magical mix of technology, marketing, ease-of-use, cool factor, network effect and timing, which has resulted in 74 million views per month and made video self-expression mainstream. The fact is no one has been able to do it as well as YouTube before and since.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:04:22 +0000

Youtube innovative?

Hardly.

One might say, “Not at all.”

It was an extension of a photo sharing website. It was the obvious next step. To be innovative, you have to do something non-obvious.

By: rubayeet

rubayeet — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:42:12 +0000

Is there any specific reason for which Jawed Karim was not mentioned as a co-founder of YouTube in your article?

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By: Stephen Crowley

Stephen Crowley — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:14:03 +0000

Bill gates certainly isn’t one of them. he’s a lucky lack and a sharp guy but no genius and certainly no revolution. Put John Carmack on the list, hands down far more influential from a ACTUALLY PRODUCING VALUE perspective, rather than sitting on piles of money and meekly directing fleets of programming drones.

By: tomcat

tomcat — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:29:04 +0000

Forgot about UNIX and Bell Labs innovators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie