OpenDRM: A Standards Framework for Digital Rights Expression, Messaging and Enforcement
John Erickson, Revised September · 2002
...Build a platform, or set of protocols, so that it can evolve in any number of ways; don't play God; don't hardwire any single path of development; don't build into it a middle that can meddle with its use. Keep the core simple and let the application (or end) develop the complexity...No one can control how the system will evolve. No single individual gets to set the path the system will follow. It might evolve to follow a path, but it will evolve by the collective choice of many... Lawrence Lessig, Open Code and Open Societies (1999) [OpenCode]