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Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Lead Bullets | Andreessen Horowitz
Windows. Microsoft wanted third-party application developers to build on Windows, but it didn’t want individual applications to get too popular. When an app started doing well, Microsoft would bundle a free version with Windows, as it did with its Microsoft-branded media player, email client, or, most famously, internet browser.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
He wrote a program in Python—a more flexible language that was becoming popular for web-based programs—that would act as a “spider,” so called because it would crawl the web for data.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts
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