The Problem For Most Artists Isn't Piracy,

Ruby On Rails Is A Breakthrough In Lowering The Barriers Of Entry To Programming. Powerful Web Applications That Formerly Might Have Taken Weeks Or Months To Develop Can Be Produced In A Matter Of Days.

The Lean Startup Isn't Just About How To Create A More Successful Entrepreneurial Business, It's About What We Can Learn From Those Businesses To Improve Virtually Everything We Do. I Imagine Lean Startup Principles Applied To Government Programs, To Healthcare, And To Solving The World's Great Problems. It's Ultimately An Answer To The Question: How Can We Learn More Quickly What Works, And Discard What Doesn't?

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.

Obscurity Is A Bigger Problem For Authors Than Piracy.

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.