When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.