"And, by the way, open never wins, closed always wins. Just look at the entire history of the tech industry, or, if you’re in a hurry, just look at that one time when Microsoft tried to do a lame version of making music play on zillions of random shitty devices and it totally got crushed because our closed model was so much better."

"The reward we’ve reaped as a society for shoving greenbacks into Apple’s bank account for the last decade is that we have much better stuff now. It’s the exact opposite effect we got from making Microsoft big."

good summary of why I will never buy an iPad or iPhone: Closed systems are no fun.

"This group is for organizing an Open Source version of FriendFeed."