[K12OSN] FYI: open source quotes grab bag
Kym Buchanan (buchanak@nwrel.org)
Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:25:14 -0800
Step right up and reach inside!
There are many people in the world who really derive a lot of satisfaction
from writing software, and it is [a] phenomenon of our age.... It's almost
as though the village blacksmiths of the world can now build axles in their
backyards, assemble them together and compete with General Motors. -Paul
Maritz, Microsoft Corporation
...most of you steal your software... [and thus] prevent good software from
being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? -Bill
Gates, Microsoft Corporation (1976)
Raise the level of the ocean and all ships rise together. -Jeremy Hogan, Red
Hat Software, Inc.
It's no great secret that the word "Linux" means different things to
different people. Wall Street traders interpret it as a synonym for "cash
money," while the Internet hippie views it as the modern-day software
equivalent of "make love not war." -Sam Williams, journalist
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to
everything it touches. -Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corporation
It works. It's free. Duh... -Paul Nelson, K-12 educator
Well, let's just say, "if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want
Linux." -Bruce Perens, Open Source Initiative
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal
itch. -Eric Raymond, Open Source Initiative
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I pulled these in preparation for our upcoming presentation at the ENF
conference in Portland, Oregon. (http://www.nwrel.org/enf/) I have the
citations if you want them.
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Kym Buchanan, Research Specialist
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
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