Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Dave Winer is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer who resides in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext, Userland Software and Small Picture Inc., a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 May 1955
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles,
You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
Either we'll succeed and have a well-financed development and operations company, or we'll put Frontier in mothballs, and revisit it next year. So the stakes are high for us.
Microsoft is talking about getting in the loop on the Web, and they're feeding the story to print people? Surely there was one person inside Microsoft who felt that it was just a bit too ironic to try to get the new message out through the old guys.
One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.
Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.
Note that no one asked Mike if his code was open source or if his underwear is clean.
I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.
Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.
To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.
Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.
If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.