“What happens is we get there first, and legitimize the market.”
O’Reilly and Associates founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly, on his software and publishing concern’s history of failing to reap what it sows, Web Week, 5 January 1998
Author: Matt
In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
METHINKS THE NET ROUTES AROUND LEGAL PRECEDENT, TOO
“My fear is that the Government is getting the idea that code is the most efficient regulator in cyberspace. And we don’t have a constitutional tradition to resist that.”
Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School professor and special master in the Micropoly case, The New York Times, 5 January 1998
POOR LITTLE ORSON MUST BE ALL RECESSIVE GENES
“Is there a happiness gene, and is it dominant?”
Louis Rossetto, who reportedly still does something at Wired, on plans to build his magazine’s circulation by breeding a blindly optimistic master race, Edge.org, 30 December 1997
WHY, THERE MIGHT EVEN BE OTHER WEB ZINES WORTH READING
“More than once, in discussions of the browser wars, we have provided links to Netscape Navigator’s download page.”
Slate editor-in-brief Michael Kinsley, proving that he’s not a pawn of Bill Gates, no, really, Slate, 25 December 1997
THAT’LL BE A NEWSFLASH FOR LARRY ELLISON
“A lot of people don’t need big egos now because they have computers instead.”
Author Norman Mailer, interviewed for Esquire‘s Dubious Achievement Awards, January 1998
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