Re:Spare me... (Score 1)

I find it laughable that you think there's little remaining to research about software, or that software is in any meaningful way "mature".

Software research in core fields such as OS's and languages has been going on well up to 1979, and then there was a long pause with no progress for about 15-25 years, and now we're seeing some renewal of interesting software research (EROS-OS and Coyotos, Haskell and related languages, Erights) made possible by the Internet and Free Software movement.

But I am pretty confident that the reason software progress almost halted for a few decades is because software copyrights consolidated a big and powerful closed-source industry that did everything it could to lock everyone into their platforms by making interoperability difficult, which also makes progress and change difficult.