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
A quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their digital identities.
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.
OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.
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.
I don't want to say these things. That's why I'm saying them. You may not want to hear them. That's why you should hear them.
Over the weekend I exchanged email with a Unix guy who chastised me for being "insular" and proposed to tell me how to speak to Unix people with proper humility. Well, I only pray to one God in relation to computers, and His name is Murphy.
There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.
One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.
Note that no one asked Mike if his code was open source or if his underwear is clean.
Actually, I would have liked to sell sooner. Keeping the site running was a perpetual challenge. We would scale and it would just grow exponentially.
Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.
You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.