"The ultimate moral defense for capitalism is that it stops people like Bill Gates and me from raising armies and starting religions." - Marc Andreessen
"Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would proser under the new. Their suport is indifferent partly from fear and partly because they are generally incredulous, never relly trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience." - Nicolo Machiavelli
"You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the OS Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the OS Product that will be automatically downloaded to your computer" - from license agreements for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3
"You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update." - End User License Agreement (EULA) for a Windows Media Player download patch.
"Microsoft has chosen to make the war against open source a religious one. In doing so it has just managed to highlight it further, meaning IT Directors who wouldn't have ever considered it are now thinking of moving over." - Dan Kusnetsky, International Data Corp.
"I think ultimately we will look for an open source desktop. I think that's eventually where the industry will go." - Richard Thwaite, director of IT and ebusiness infrastructure for Ford Europe (which controls 33,000 desktops)
"Open source software in general - and Linux specifically - has forever changed the industry and set into motion a more rapid decline of UNIX". - International Data Corp.
"In my will, I've specified that my heirs should keep my email address active and that all incoming mail should be automatically answered with a personalized response expressing my great interest in their products, services, offers of stolen government funds, webcam views of their hot coed selves and penis extenders. Count it as my own web-based perpetual flame." - David Weinberger