“People are claiming that they’re seeing the bottom. I don’t know where they’re getting that data. They certainly didn’t see the cliff, so how in the world can they see the bottom?”
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, on analysts who can’t tell their bottoms from a dot in dot com, News.com, 10 May 2001
“In the last four years we’ve recovered our soul to a large extent.”
Kevin Browne, general manager of Microsoft’s Mac-software business unit, on avoiding spiritual margin calls on his karmic brokerage account, ZDNN, 7 May 2001
“We want people … when you say, ‘AOL Time Warner,’ to go, ‘Wow, man, that company is slammin’.'”
AOL Time Warner co-COO Richard Parsons, on safeguarding the company’s reputation as it combines direct marketing with telecom services, News.com, 7 May 2001
“If you think the battle between closed source and open source is interesting, just wait till you see the battle between closed and open services.”
Tim O’Reilly, explaining that in the GNU economy, server administration wants to be free, O’Reilly Network, 4 May 2001
“This viral aspect of the G.P.L. poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it.”
Microsoft exec Craig Mundie, griping about the open-source provisions of the General Public License, The New York Times, 3 May 2001
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