Well - I love mongrel, and I love Zed too. One thing he can hang is hat on is that by giving away mongrel for free he really helped legitimize RoR by providing

Well - I love mongrel, and I love Zed too. One thing he can hang is hat on is that by giving away mongrel for free he really helped legitimize RoR by providing a stable platform, which helped the spread of RoR, which itself spawned many more applications, coded more quickly, and for less money, that themselves went out into the wild and helped to organize people's lives, or save them time, or money, and so contributed to the well being of humanity itself and perhaps brought us one step closer to the Singularity. So he's got that going for him, which is pretty good.