Apple $AAPL was just told by a federal jury in San Diego that it has to pay Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion for infringing two of its patents
Apple said it will appeal the ruling - CNBC
"Application development did not change much for 20 years, but now, a new wave is crashing in. Most computers in the future must be put to work at least in part w/o programmers.
Not surprisingly, programmers will instinctively resist methods described in this book."
- 1982, James Martin, in the book Application Development Without Programmers