Benjamin Franklin would have been the first Linux user.
Thomas Jefferson would have first circulated drafts of the Declaration
of Independence on a moderated mail-list.
Tomas Paine would have first published 'Common Sense' on a Blog.
I don't want any foreign Kings George treading on my long-ago ARIN assigned ISP Class C Address Space!
We must continue to have absolute freedom of Internet space and the all the electronic speech that goes with it! - Dave Hughes
(Source: email from Hughes)
The Department of Defense is completely going open source. We've had ships that stopped in the middle of battle and did not run any more, because they were using Microsoft technology. This is no longer acceptable. - Tom Adelstein
(Source: phone interview.)
"We're going to immediately roll out the Java Desktop System to between a half million and a million desktops in 2004... It makes us instantaneously the No. 1 Linux desktop player on the planet." - Scott McNealy
(Source: Business Standard: http://www.business-standard.com/ice/story.asp?Menu=119&story=29323)
"Linux servers have demonstrated six consecutive quarters of year-on-year revenue growth, proving that they are not a flash-in-the-pan technology and that they are meeting real-world computing requirements in HPC and commercial deployments." - Jean Bozman, IDC
(Source: <http://www.askwebhosting.com/story/25/IDC_Linux_Server_Growth_is_Nearly_50_Percent_Year-Over-Year.html>)
"Future wide-scale implementations of Linux-based, mission-critical business applications may get less press, but they will continue to happen at all of the largest global financial institutions....Critical to this migration will be the ongoing support of the large hardware vendors, especially their ability to provide support tools and services for porting and new development. We believe that within the next 18-24 months, installing a Linux-based software package will become as normal as installing a Windows or Sun Solaris system." - Damon Kovelsky, IDC
(Source: <http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1559661>)