{"id":305,"date":"2003-08-08T23:20:27","date_gmt":"2003-08-09T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/08\/08\/the-goal-of-software\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:50:27","slug":"the-goal-of-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/08\/08\/the-goal-of-software\/","title":{"rendered":"The goal of software:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a413'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powersdk.com\/ted\/2003_08_03_archive.html#106036019719605118\">Theodore writes<\/a>, &#8220;The purpose of software is to simplify, automate, and save the end user time. The more time a piece of software saves, the more valuable it is.&#8221; The post is about flash player update. The current flash implimentation has an autoupdate feature which asks the user if there is a new version. He says, why ask for the users permission to get a low size update of flash player. The user has already given permission to install the player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore writes, &#8220;The purpose of software is to simplify, automate, and save the end user time. The more time a piece of software saves, the more valuable it is.&#8221; The post is about flash player update. The current flash implimentation has an autoupdate feature which asks the user if there is a new version. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}