We have a highly skilled group of patent examiners with a technical background that matches up very well with the kind of technologies they are seeing — and we think we issue patents of an appropriate breadth.
— U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Commissioner Q. Todd Dickinson in IP Worldwide
Amazon.com Patents Enemy-Making Process
— Headline in The Industry Standard
Windows CE is an environment where Microsoft says, "this is what the reference design looks like, and as long as you build this, Windows CE will work on it." Linux, on the other hand, is an erector set, where we design the reference hardware to meet the problem we're trying to solve and then go to Linux for the piece parts from the bin to build exactly what works.
John Bork, Intel in an interview with Linux Journal
Open Source developers understand Unix. This is part of what made it possible to create a better UNIX: Linux. In order to create a better MS Office, Open Source developers need to understand MS Office in as much detail as they understood UNIX. My fear is that the Open Source developer community doesn't understand Office. It can't create what it doesn't understand. What we need are more developers using Windows and Office.
— Larry Augustin, VA Linux Systems, at the New York New Media Association