I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the ex…

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.