“For Microsoft and IBM, it’s like designing a giant metropolis, laying out the roads, agreeing on traffic regulations, putting in plumbing, and so on. For the hackers, it’s more like “let’s build a city: everybody bring a brick.” This is not such a bad idea: it’s basically how the PC industry and the web succeeded. But how it will turn out in this case is anybody’s guess.”

» Guardian Online: “The third era starts here”