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In my views, it's mostly about balance rather than picking between divergent choices. Who says one can't be a firm leader also capable of soliciting and respecting the opinions of …

I disagree that one cannot distinguish between the likely ethics of a bootstrap or VC-funded startup. Logically, when a business has its own customers as the only means of support,…

Actual success rates aren't that important - I think the point can be examined more clearly simply by considering things in their true light: there is a big difference between havi…

In my eyes, your take on things is very far from the live-and-let-live stance that you appear to want to adopt. It's more like social engineering. You continue to be free to do you…

Agreed. But in my conception of copyright reform there is a separation of copyright ownership law vs. legal protection of instances of when that copyright is monetized. The weaknes…

I appreciate your sentiments - I really do. From my perspective, the inability of people to involve themselves in discussion both prevents them knowing me and also finding a better…

Go ahead - look through all my comments I've written on IP. When you know what I am saying, you'll know I am not saying one should play by the rules - I never have in my life, that…

Enough with the cowardly and anonymous down-votes. If you've something wrong with what I've written, presumably you have a point to make of your own. Otherwise you are just confirm…

Sorry, but this post is based on a false notion that intellectual property is a beneficial crutch propping up only corporations and piggybacks on the idea that destruction of entre…

Does Harvard Business School have a kindergarten class now?

Expiring copyright and open-sourcing are not the same thing - but they can have the same result. That's a point I think tech-people don't think about enough. If my business is the …

I'm a new arrival in the tech industry; used to work in the content industry. I have NO love for corporations - none at all - it's just that I have really gotten to know the people…

The limiting of copyright and patent is supported by advocates of such limitations on the basis of benefits from the work accruing in a more fair balance between the individual and…

It's funny, I never down-vote people even when I don't agree with them. But that's just me - I am anti-censorship. Though, I do thank you for taking the time to make an argument - …

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If my business and my copyright are the same thing, why should I be forced to 'open-source' my business after ten years? Neither t…

A modest proposal for Joel: Ten years as a period for copyright? How about you go first. Since the tech industry understands copyright so much better than everyone else it might be…

PG is not using 'killing' in the sense of "finding ways [entertainment] that people prefer". To quote: "The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they cou…

I'm sorry but this kind of thread from the initial post on down to the echo chamber of opinions smacks more of Jonestown than Silicon Valley. I personally find it disturbing. The v…

SOPA is a disaster but there seems to be far too much groupthink going on to consider an obvious point: if people treated their internet with more respect we wouldn’t be ending up …

Something shady going on with this petition? I logged in - first time every looking at it - and it says "You've already signed this petition." ???

The SOPA outcry reminds me of global warming - specifically the generation that doesn’t believe in it, that scoffs at the notion that man could even affect mother nature. That gene…

Yes, and frankly the micro-managing boredom. From my perspective, any system like this is starting to serve the needs of the platform in place of the needs of the consumer. My car …

I don't say anywhere that the full tail doesn't exist, do I? I simply point out that it's very lucrative for the platform provider and not very compelling for a content provider. W…

As I have posted elsewhere here, as a fact-on-the-ground 'discovery' is highly over-rated and over-emphasized. It is much easier to connect with 100 people deep enough to get them …