Dave Winer
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"Dave Winer" is an United States/American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting language/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 blog/weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

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You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

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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.

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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.

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I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

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Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

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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.

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Note that no one asked Mike if his code was open source or if his underwear is clean.

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A quite simple, but powerful technology that empowers individuals to keep control over and manage their digital identities.

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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.

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