Business Quote by Jaron Lanier

“Google and Apple offer the image of a pseudo-commons to Internet users. That image recalls Nick Dyer-Whiteford's claim that, in light of the structural…

— Sumanth Gopinath

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

— Robin Gross

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the…

— Marc Andreessen

New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely…

— Mark Helprin

“Investors are still thinking through the consequences of reinventing the software industry as one with an explicit focus on service rather than closed intellectual…

— Eric S. Raymond

“...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.”

— David Welch

“How one creates customers by suing them en masse is a mystery known only to the copyright industries.”

— William Patry

“For all its flaws, copyright provides some incentive for people to take on the risk of creating new work by allowing for the possibility…

— Astra Taylor

“Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.”

— Ben Horowitz

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so…

— Esther Dyson

“My liberators in Silicon Valley have freed me to write for you directly and to say what I want to say to anyone I…

— Frank Schaeffer

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption…

— Marc Andreessen