Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.