A lot of our customers are Linux savvy. So we give them root access. Please, go hack away. We're already seeing a lot of community development. In fact, some of the features we're introducing... came from the community. -- Bob Fuhrman, President & CEO of Interact-tv, at CES

Source: personal interview at CES

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets. - Eric S. Raymond

Source: <http://www.fastcompany.com/online/29/inspired.html>

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable. - Tim O'Reilly

Information wants to be $6.95 - Don Marti

<http://fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_oreilly>

"I don’t think Linux is questioned now... I used to have to write a paper as to why anyone would use the technology, but the systems we have developed have been rock-solid for the past five years." - Ray Loyzaga, CommSecure

<http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1827627000&fp=16&fpid=0>

"Linux server growth continued to accelerate, demonstrating that Linux servers are taking on important roles in IT customers' computing infrastructure. What began with edge and Web-centric workloads is branching out to include HPC and commercial workloads." - Jean Bozeman, IDC

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jhtml?containerId=pr2004_02_26_193650

Linux is a better product than Windows (Microsoft's operating system). From a data-server standpoint, Linux is much more reliable, easier to manage. I think Linux is certainly going to win the server war. (Servers are back-end computers that run networks.) Not that Windows will be wiped out. But Microsoft has very formidable competition in front of it in the form of Linux.

And you'll see Linux on desktop (PCs). The interesting thing that I'm watching is all over China, all over India, people want to use Linux on the desktop. And it's very healthy that that monopoly will be taken away from (Microsoft). - Larry Ellison, in USA Today

<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/techcorporatenews/2004-01-27-oracle-cover_x.htm>