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Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz
He wrote a program in Python—a more flexible language that was becoming popular for web-based programs—that would act as a “spider,” so called because it would crawl the web for data.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts
... See moreChris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Bill Gates saw where customer priorities were shifting in the computer industry time and time again—from languages to operating systems to applications to communications to the Internet.
Adrian J. Slywotzky • The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
Microsoft has been able to convert its installed base position into a de facto standard that is a very powerful economic engine.