There's Not A Single Business Model, And

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.

Architecture Trumps Licensing Any Time.

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.

Think Of How Wikipedia Works, How Amazon Harnesses User Annotation On Its Site, The Way Photo-sharing Sites Like Flickr Are Bleeding Out Into Other Applications. We're Entering An Era In Which Software Learns From Its Users And All Of The Users Are Connected.

Pursue Something So Important That Even If You Fail, The World Is Better Off With You Having Tried.