Month: February 2000

“Linux is very often seen as noncommercial, having more highbrow, friendly values.”

Linus Torvalds, on the marketing niche his Linux operating system occupies, ZDNN, 2 February 2000

“A ‘software product’ should be viewed as ‘functionality separately valued by consumers.'”

Harvard law professor Larry Lessig, explaining a very novel theory of software marketing in an amicus brief filed in U.S. v. Microsoft, The Industry Standard, 1 February 2000