Our industry is aging, and our willingness to innovate reflects it. Even the leading engineering software companies are conservative. Perhaps this is part of an almost-inevitable lifecycle in a technology market. Geoff Moore wrote about it ("Crossing the Chasm" and elsewhere). And there are strong forces to keep going the safe way, the incremental way. But when we stop having fun, we are turning away from life, and toward death. Is this how we want to live? I think not.

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