You cannot bundle abundance with scarcity, it’s like trying to implement region coding of the air that you breathe. But then some people will try anything. - JP Rangaswami
http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/07/08/prince-ly-returns-from-the-because-effect/
The market right now is just too good for individual developers who have experience in writing open source software for Linux, especially the low-level plumbing of Linux, to waste their time working for companies who do not allow them to contribute back, if they want to. -- Greg Kroah-Hartman
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_law_and_gospel.html
When you tell me I should give proprietary software a fair technical evaluation because its features are so nice, what you are actually doing is saying “Look at the shine on those manacles!” to someone who remembers feeling like a slave. - Eric S. Raymond
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=556#more-556
I worry about the idea of trying to centralize everything. The Washington tactic is, when there’s a problem, you appoint a czar, and the czar is responsible. It’s like the War on Drugs, or the War on Poverty. But it never quite works; you don’t get very good solutions. - Vint Cerf
http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Expert-Voices/Vint-Cerf-Keeping-the-Internet-Healthy/
Always beware of wolves dressed as Grandma, they may be more like Microsoft than they admit. - Bob Bickel
http://bobbickel.blogspot.com/2008/09/ringside-winding-down.html