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June 25, 2009
The wrong time to find out
"The problem with services is that you never really know what you're buying until something goes wrong." -- Peter Coffee, eWeek Infraspectrum podcast, August 25, 2006
June 17, 2009
Leveraging pitchforks
"Building a commercial company dependant on a volunteer community is tough to say the least. Of course RedHat developed their own flavor of Linux, but they did it by leveraging an existing enormous community of developers who were at their wits end with Microsoft. In their case the peasants (the developer community) were coming over the hills with pitch forks ready to attack Microsoft, and the smart people at RedHat were able to leverage the movement. Good for RedHat. There's no such movement in network management." -- Steve Goodman, February 2008
June 16, 2009
The end of (some) open source
"At some point every project has to decide when legacy versions will no longer be supported. This is true of open source projects as well." -- Phil Windley, July 2007
June 12, 2009
Public decision-making
"What makes something like Linux successful isn't the availability of code; most people never even see it. The important part of open-source is transparency and a decision-making process open to public criticism." -- Tim O'Brien, September 2004
June 11, 2009
Microsoft vs. Google: Your choice
"Microsoft gives you an integrated stack but all the moving parts are anchored on a single company's vision. Google frees you to work out the bits yourself, but you must rely on your own smarts or those of your chosen tools." -- Gavin Clarke, June 2009
June 10, 2009
20-year-old apps that still work
"20 year old UNIX apps still work today! And enterprises like that kind of ROI." -- Christian Gross, September 2004
June 09, 2009
Linus on committees
"I don't think committees ever make any sense at all." -- Linus Torvalds, September 2006
June 08, 2009
The value of de facto standards
"While we might not always like it, de facto standards work. Not always, and not perfectly, but they definitely create value & user benefit." -- Dean Bubley, September 2006
June 05, 2009
The hard part of building a standard
"The hard part of building a standard is getting the right people at the table." -- Ian Murdock, January 2007
