Month: February 2000

“We went from the initial shock of wondering whether it was our problem to the huge disappointment of realizing that we were marked by hackers.”

Yahoo president Jeff Mallett, explaining his coworkers’ disappointment in finding out that they weren’t paranoid, but rather, someone really was out to get them through a denial-of-service attack, Forbes, 8 February 2000

“People want to take advantage of Linux as soon as they can. We can facilitate doing that.”

Corel CEO MIchael Cowpland, explaining how a merger of his company with Inprise will allow him to take advantage of people who want to take advantage of Linux, CBS MarketWatch, 7 February 2000

“Professionally, I like the idea of the least amount of privacy.”

Joshua Neuman, BMG Music’s creative director, all but begging to be stalked at work, Wired News, 3 February 2000

“You can argue that [ClickStart] is is self-serving. But our feeling is that while this is good for us, it’s also good for the world.”

Novell CEO Eric Schmidt, on a putatively philanthropic program he’s backing to put computers in working-class homes (and churning up demand for his company’s products), Salon.com, 4 February 2000

“Professionally, I like the idea of the least amount of privacy.”

Joshua Neuman, BMG Music’s creative director, all but begging to be stalked at work, Wired News, 3 February 2000