I went to the DNA lounge for the first time last night. The club is owned by JWZ. Before DNA, JWZ was known for starting a battle with Richard Stallman, successfully forking Emacs (which was damn near heretical), developing XScreenSaver, writing a good chunk of Netscape, and then convincing Netscape to open source it, creating the Mozilla Foundation. There are little shrines to JWZ's work scattered throughout DNA. Linux terminals running XScreenSaver and Mozilla.

JWZ crafted a clean exit from software and went on to do something completely different, risky, yet pretty cool, and appears to be successful at it. I think there are stereotypes which box developers into narrow roles, but Jamie's writing on DNA chronicles a deft navigation of club ownership in SF. The skills required for software crossover; no doubt.