Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.
Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
Who has the data has the power.
Architecture trumps licensing any time.
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.