Negative experiences with gatekeepers (Apple App Store, dot-com bust) produced unexpected long-term learning and creative output for DHH.

The Apple App Store terms and conditions make it more complex to distribute GPL applications on iOS than LGPL applications.

“The terms and conditions of the, App Store, the Apple App Store for iOS makes it very complex to have GPL application on it, while it's easier to have LGPL applications on it.”

The four years from 1997 to 2001 (the dot-com boom and bust) provided learning worth a decade or more of normal experience.

“I think if you compress those years from let's say '97 to 2001, like that's only four years. That was instruction worth a decade, at least, maybe two.”