Sheryl Crow appeared to be washed up, so did Bonnie Raitt. We miss many dynamics in the software business. They trust people they can own. If you have an opinion they don't want to deal with you. But that's not how you make money.
Freedom of expression is the raw material that great software is made out of.
You can't control it or you lose it. You get what you pay for. Great passionate ideas make money. Lucky great passionate ideas make lots of money. Last week I wrote about Steven Spielberg coming to Silicon Valley.