Our passion is about Linux for human beings, it’s not Linux for Linux specialists, or Linux for anything other than the people who we care about.
...our goal, very simply, is to make sure the Free software ecosystem can deliver a Mac OS-like experience, or an experience that will compete with the Mac OS. We see Apple as the gold standard of the user experience. We believe that, while it can be a challenge, the innovation inherent in the Free software process can deliver an experience that is comparable and in many ways superior.
Proprietary drivers are a horrible kludge, they’re a little bit like introducing a cast iron pot into a titanium machine; you have something that is inherently brittle and therefore reduces the value of the whole.
- Mark Shuttleworth
Source: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3757246_2
For every artificial scarcity, there's an equal and opposite artificial abundance. - JP Rangaswami
Source: a talk reported at Reboot10: http://twitter.com/dweinberger/statuses/844937650
If you provide your customer with solutions you’ll have a well-defined market. But if you provide your customer with the opportunity to create new solutions then your customer will create new markets for you. - Bob Frankston
Source: private email
"Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. … a tool … has to have been around long enough that most of society is using it. It’s when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen..." Clay Shirky
From his book "Here comes everybody" p. 105