Month: April 1999

“You can’t take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of ‘open source,’ and have everything magically work out. Software is hard.”

Mozilla.org hacker emeritus Jamie Zawinski, on his resignation from the Netscape-backed open-source browser project, Jwz.org, 1 April 1999

“Every Internet-related IPO seems to go up with little regard for the company behind the stock.”

Keith Benjamin, an Internet analyst at BancBoston Robertson Stephens, who appears to be just now realizing what the Net stock rally is all about, Wired News, 1 April 1999