Alternatives Quote by Matt Mullenweg

“The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.”

Matt Mullenweg

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You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

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Technology is best when it brings people together.

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Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived…

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No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.

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One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

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Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!

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Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love,…

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