A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil. |
And I know what the emergency was. He was buying Andover.net. |
Indirectly, the impact [of LSB] will be large on [enterprise deployments], ... As independent software vendors develop confidence that they can maintain a single Linux binary port for all LSB-conformant distributions, many more enterprise applications will become available. |
Of course they're using it, ... It doesn't suck. |
On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users? |
People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of people creates a better end result, ... For some reason, we forgot that when it came to developing software. |
The Cathedral and the Bazaar. |
The fact that [the summit] is happening at all, the fact that people in these sub-tribes see a need to come together and speak to each other says something in itself |
The fact that this is a very international effort is manifested in the code -- our tools have stronger international support than you will get ordinarily from proprietary software. |
The important move would be to document all [Microsoft's] file formats and communications protocols, make the documentation publicly available, and make a binding promise not to sue or harass people who write open source software to interoperate. |
Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that. |
You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software. |
You're sending us to go talk to the PC manufacturers and the PC manufacturers say go talk to Microsoft. How are we supposed to get our refund? |