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Architecture Trumps Licensing Any Time.

Programming Is How We Talk To The Machines That Are Increasingly Woven Into Our Lives. If You Aren't A Programmer, You're Like One Of The Unlettered People Of The Middle Ages Who Were Told What To Think By The Literate Priesthood. We Had A Renaissance When More People Could Read And Write; We'll Have Another One When Everyone Programs.

Think Of How Wikipedia Works, How Amazon Harnesses User Annotation On Its Site, The Way Photo-sharing Sites Like Flickr Are Bleeding Out Into Other Applications. We're Entering An Era In Which Software Learns From Its Users And All Of The Users Are Connected.

A Key Function Of A Publishing Brand Is The Bestowal Of Status By Who And What You Pay Attention To.

Early On, When Software Was Developed By Computer Scientists, Just People Working With Computers, People Passed Around Software Because That Was How You Got Computers To Do Things.