This opens up a myriad of possibilities for us to develop programming that we have never heretofore been able to offer, so it's a very exciting juncture for us. It's the threshold of a new day for us.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

Cable and satellite no longer have the lock on programming.

It's a huge move for us. Since we became a nonprofit, we've been steadily expanding our programming, offering fellowships, making the organization do much more programmatically. But we've been limited by our space.

There are very few barriers to entry. Anyone with a good idea and knowledge of programming could write a decent spam filter,

All of us who attended the meeting -- including Microsoft -- unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors, and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished,