H. Moore on software open source
From Fireside Q&A -- Charles H. Moore -- 2025-11-16 · · Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group
“Despite the issues, I am open to open-sourcing my current implementation of color forth, but it's coded in assembler and unreadable, making it difficult to share or transfer in a usable form. This is a dilemma I face with my software.”
On , H. Moore, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director at Tyler Technologies Inc, spoke about software open source during Fireside Q&A -- Charles H. Moore -- 2025-11-16 on Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group.
About H. Moore
In a November 2025 fireside chat, Charles H. Moore stated that his software Color Forth "has now finished" after 25 years, as it stopped working following Windows 10 and 11 updates. He said he spent weeks troubleshooting the issue with Microsoft's Copilot but was unable to resolve crashes related to graphics routines. Moore said he is open to open-sourcing the implementation but noted it is coded in assembler and "unreadable." He expressed a preference for returning to bare-metal programming and using his own hardware rather than switching to other operating systems. In an August 2022 interview on CNBC, Moore discussed Tyler Technologies' employment practices. He said the company was seeing "boomerangs"—employees who left and later returned—because they "learned the grass is not always greener on the other side." Moore noted that Tyler Technologies had not laid off employees during the Great Recession or the COVID-19 pandemic, and described the company as "a very stable employer." He said the company had about 7,500 employees across roughly 80 offices and used a flexible hybrid work model.
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