Everybody Has A Share

Rich=not worth reading

"I have no enthusiasm for emails laden with “rich” HTML, JavaScript, Flash and the like. These kinds of emails are invariably marketing and usually not worth reading." -- Tim Anderson, June 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

Linus on committees

"I don't think committees ever make any sense at all." -- Linus Torvalds, September 2006

Real world trumps theory

"XForms is the semantic counterpart to Ajax. But currently XForms' semantic advantage is equal to its practical disadvantage. And since the real world wins from theory, I guess we'll have Ajax for a long time." -- Anne Van Kesteren, May 2005

Specifications aren't standards, part 2

"The specifications published by the W3C are not standards, and the W3C is not a standards organisation. It's an industry consortium that publishes open specifications. In fact, it's intentionally constructed in this way; Tim Berners Lee intentionally avoided making it a standards body when he set it up." -- "Jim", commenting on IE Blog, February 2005

Specifications aren't standards

"From my point of view, almost everything that is called a 'standard' by the technology press and pundits is really just a specification." -- Dare Obasanjo, April 2004

Overestimating trust

"I just went back to Linked In for the first time in a while, and have discovered that my total trusted network has burgeoned to 1,137,200 people, which really overestimates how much trust in people I have" -- Shel Israel, March 2005

What really matters

"Are we too fixated on identity? It's relationships that matter!" -- Jamie Lewis, September 2006

Free service and control

"If you're using someone else's service, for free, and expecting that you'll get control over everything then you're just not facing the practical reality of the situation." -- Phil Windley, January 2008

Community = Strategic asset

"Big vendors are willing to trade the efforts of open source communities as if they were just strategic corporate assets." -- Gary Edwards, June 2007