We think IT managers would be irresponsible not to take a hard look at Linux and to consider it as a platform for new applications. The year 2000 will be marked by the rise of Linux and the release of Windows 2000, creating real choice among operating systems. There is a risk, however, that Wall Street greed-mongers could ruin it all by overheating expectations and seeking to turn a leading Linux player, such as Red Hat, into the next software monopoly.
— Editorial in PC Week
Amazon has obtained a US patent (5,960,411) on an important and obvious idea for E-commerce: the idea that your command in a web browser to buy a certain item can carry along information about your identity...Amazon has sued to block the use of this simple idea, showing that they truly intend to monopolize it. This is an attack against the World Wide Web and against E-commerce in general.
— Richard Stallman in Linux Today
Source code is like manure, if you spread it around things grow. If you hoard it it just smells bad.
— Zachary Kessin in Slashdot
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
— Omer Shenker in Slashdot
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years. Email, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.
— Steve Martin in The New York Times
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