San Diego is skilled at the use of computers to include setting up e-mail services and using the programming language LINUX. He is also skilled at sailing, particularly small sailboats. San Diego has traveled internationally. - From an FBI Wanted notice for Daniel Andreas San Diego. Later "operating system" was substituted for "programming lanugage".
Original source: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/FBI_Linux_is_a_programming_language
Current source: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/dt/sandiego_da.htm
Linux is not about free software, it is about community...It's not like Novell, it isn't going to run out of money -- it started off bankrupt, in a way. - Steve Ballmer
Source: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959165.html
YHD Software,
All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway. - Paul Graham
Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
Scarcity models are by definition not scale-free; a hit culture prevails. Opensource, given the lower barriers to entry, allows someone to build a left-handed credit derivatives juicer because he felt like it. There’s a long-tail effect. You are more likely to find esoteric tools in an opensource world than in a closed source one. Opensource people don’t go around asking "Is there a market for this?" They solve problems and see if others have similar problems to solve. - JP Rangaswami
Source: http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/04/12/10-reasons-for-enterprises-to-use-opensource/
I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if John D Rockefeller had patented a system for transferring gasoline from a fixed source to a mobile device using a hose that fit into an cylindrical pipe. - Bob Frankston
Source: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2007/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/12:33/20070406155116:2E760D64-E478-11DB-8383-B97D599214BB/
GOOGLE'S WORST NIGHTMARE: Wikipedia's JIMMY WALES Has His Sights Set on the Search Business - Cover headline of the April 2007 edition of Fast Company
"In the current issue of Fast Company, right below my face it says, "Google's Worst Nightmare." And I think, God, I should really get to work on that search engine. - Jimmy Wales, in Time, April 7, 2007
Sources:
Fast Company article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/114/features-why-is-this-man-smiling.html
Time piece: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1601837,00.html