“People’s stereotype [of the typical Linux developer] is of a male computer geek working in his basement writing code in his spare time, purely for the love of his craft. Such people were a significant force up until about five years ago.” Andrew Morton

http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/26641-1.html

“The (Linux developer) in the basement is a rare bird now” Morgan Reed, vice president of public affairs for the Association for Competitive Technology

http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/26641-1.html

DRM systems don't "protect" anything. They damage the customer experience for legit users by taking away functionality, and doom the content they touch to oblivion when the Dead Media Effect kicks in. - Don Marti

http://zgp.org/~dmarti/blosxom/freedom/protect.html

Only a customer can define the word "open." - Jonathan Schwartz, President & COO, Sun Microsystems

<http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040808#rewriting_history_and_vocabulary>

"Openness matters in two places. One is in source code. The other is in data." - R0ml Lefkowitz, Director, Open Source, AT&T Wireless

(Talk at OSCon)

"Yes. Never before in history have we been able to see incumbent businesses protect business models based on old technology against creative destruction by new technologies. And they're doing it by manipulating the political process. The telegraph didn't prevent the telephone, the railroad didn't prevent the automobile. But now, because of the immense amounts of money that they're spending on lobbying and the need for immense amounts of money for media, the political process is being manipulated by incumbents." - Howard Rheingold

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2004/nf20040811_1095_db_81.htm

This adoption of free software to resolve incompatibility between the economic need for provider diversity and the engineering need to avoid product diversity is, I think, fairly unique across all industry. I can’t think of similar examples. - Andrew Morton

<http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040802115731932>