"Even the failed companies contribute to the progress. The source code and developers don't just go away. It's open source." Alexandre Julliard

Source: Nat Friedeman, in a presentation

"I spent four years as chief strategy officer for Borland. We grappled constantly with the issues of 'What is open source?' "How does it affect us?' How is the software business?' 'How is it a changing model?' When I decided to leave and start my own company one of the things I said was 'Open source is a tidal wave that I'd rather be riding than getting buried by.'" - Ted Shelton

Brazil hosted the recent Fourth International Forum on Free Software, held in the World Social Forum's stronghold of Porto Alegre. There, jazzy pop star Gilberto Gil, now Brazil's minister of culture, promised to "tropicalize digitalization," presumably a reference to bridging the developed and developing worlds. If Extremadura is the harbinger, those tropicalized digits will be globally connected, fiercely patriotic, and free as sunshine. - Bruce Sterling in Wired.

<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/view.html?pg=4?tw=wn_tophead_3>

"We're in Seattle, where we broadcast thousands of different program sources at the same time. For baseball we'll have fifty thousand viewers watching in Japan at two in the morning. You can't back stuff up. You need a 24/7 operation, dial tone quality. So while we first looked at Linux for its expense, or lack of it, reliability is why we choose it today. And if Linux was as expensive as Windows, we'd still go with Linux." - Kevin Foreman, Real Networks

ACNS (Application and Content Networking System) has been based on a Cisco-modified version of Linux since its initial release... There were earlier generations of related products that also ran on this OS. We use Linux on some of our products in order to integrate Linux-based applications." - Charles Sommerhauser, Cisco spokesman

<http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/04/30/cisco_uses_linux_in_enterprise_content_caching_system.html>

Linux PCs are no longer just for geeks. - The Economist

<http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2594309>

"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." -Marshall McLuhan