Whoever turned "copy right" into one word had to be a lawyer. We don't say "freespeechright" or "gunright" or "assemblyright" or "religionright." - John Bloom
"Universities are very cost-conscious, and the relatively low expense of Intel systems combined with organic availability of Linux is quickly becoming the norm, especially at reputable engineering schools. The free availability of the source code leads universities to standardize on Linux for computer science courses." - Billy Marshall, Red Hat
"Linux and open source are reversing Microsoft's monopoly path, starting with servers. The desktop will follow — even if Microsoft adopts the highly unlikely stratagem of offering its applications on Linux — as long as the package remains cheaper and more customizable than comparable Windows offerings." - Paul Andrews, Seattle Times
"Comparing Unix and Linux like-for-like, we found that we get two-to-five times the amount of throughput [messages per second] on one of the Intel boxes than a Sun Sparc box, at half the cost." - Casey Merkey, Global Linux Program Manager. Reuters' Market Data System
" Talking to your customers is of no use if you don't have an architecture of participation." - Tim O'Reilly.
"Never be owned by your things." - Avery Lyford
"Flattering, I guess, but I can't help but think of the confusion this must have caused visiting Japanese scientists. It would be as though the Japanese had insisted on calling their own scalable Linux test bed "Newark". - William Gibson, on learning about a 1999 project by VA Linux And IBM to build a Linux Test bed called "Chiba City."
"(Microsoft has) already been killed by one open-source product. Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance... They had a virtual monopoly on Web servers, and then they were wiped off the face of the Earth. And it's going to happen to them again on Linux." - Larry Ellison [For the record, Netcraft <www.netcraft.com> currently shows Apache leading Microsoft IIS in market share by 62.23% to 27.49%.]
There is no such thing as a sustainable proprietary advantage, because there an infinite number of ways to solve a problem. That's why I still can't see the value in patents. Even if you patent one particular way of doing something, there'll be another way. - Laird Popkin
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