I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.