Intellectual property law cannot be patched, retrofitted, or expanded to contain digitized expression any more than real estate law might be revised to cover the allocation of broadcasting spectrum (which, in fact, rather resembles what is being attempted here). We will need to develop an entirely new set of methods as befits this entirely new set of circumstances.
Most of the people who actually create soft property - the programmers, hackers, and Net surfers - already know this. Unfortunately, neither the companies they work for nor the lawyers these companies hire have enough direct experience with nonmaterial goods to understand why they are so problematic. They are proceeding as though the old laws can somehow be made to work, either by grotesque expansion or by force. They are wrong.
John Perry Barlow, in Wired, March 1994
Source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/gates_ozzie_memos/
Since it's open for all to see, Linux takes a "show me" attitude to its improvements; they are visible, in all their boring technical splendor. (They also, we now know as a result of several preposterous lawsuits being rejected by the courts, do not contain code stolen from anyone else.) The logic of Linux's slow, steady construction of a solid technical edifice can be plainly traced.
Windows, by contrast, says, "Trust me." Which is often hard to do because, to an outsider, software development at Microsoft seems to lurch from one crisis to the next. Too often you get the sense you're being asked to buy a new product solely to fix the problems you had with the last one.
Lee Gomes, in Forbes, February 16, 2009
Source: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0216/054.html
We are creating the free alternative to the cloud systems that haven’t appeared yet.
Pau Garcia-Milà, in the eyeOS blog
Source: http://blog.eyeos.org/2009/02/01/eyeos-clouds-for-the-crowd/
"In my mind, if a network isn't open, it doesn't deserve the label of network." - FredR, in a comment to a posting at LinuxJournal.com
Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/wanted-mobile-home-cell#new