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...UserLand Software, of which Winer was CEO until 2002, had owned the copyright. It transferred the ownership of the specifications when it found itself in competition with other companies using the format. Being both guardian of the format and a software developer resulted in an “uncomfortable situation,” Winer said...
Winer—the founder and former CEO of UserLand Software, which specializes in programs for publishing blogs—created one of the first blogs on the Internet in 1996. He has already begun compiling a list of existing blogs at the University. The blog directory, which currently contains 29 listings, can be found at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu...
There are some who argue that Gates may be overreaching by taking on the Internet-that online services could become, as an America Online executive put it, "Microsoft's Vietnam." Dave Winer, president of a Silicon Valley software company called UserLand, sees the extraordinary growth of the Internet as a rebellion against Microsoft. "The users outfoxed us," he says. "While the software industry was following Bill Gates, the users went another way. They took control. And once the users take control, they never give it back...
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