January 2012
7 posts
In the end, the need for profit can only ever add unnecessary and unwanted side-effects to our medium of communication, whether it’s omnipresent and invisible tracking of everything we read and say, a visual landscape overrun with advertisements, or software that disappears and takes our data with it once we stop paying rent.
December 2011
13 posts
The word for computer programs that thrive through parasitic relationships with their environment is virus. A website engineered to deplete human willpower and create addicts is nothing to be proud of — even if a billion people use it. To make great software, we must honor our users, creating mutual profit. To make great software is to make people’s lives better.
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