Month: November 2001

“I think Linus shouldn’t have switched VM code in a stable release, but having done so, there wasn’t any point undoing it.”

Linux developer Alan Cox, on resolving an obscure programming dispute with Linus Torvalds, eWeek, 6 November 2001

“We are extremely supportive of music fans turning each other on to new videos in a secure environment.”

EMI new-media exec Ted Cohen, on his company’s view of file-sharing networks, Wired News, 6 November 2001

“My e-book, ‘God’s Debris,’ is the No. 1 best-selling e-book in the world this year. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it sold only 4,500 copies.”

Dilbert creator Scott Adams, on e-publishing and the discovery that “debris” does not, but ought to, rhyme with “hubris,” The New York Times, 5 November 2001

“Ultimately, the big takeaway from this is that there is no evidence that anyone has ever taken advantage of this.”

Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn, on a bleedingly obvious security hole in the software company’s Passport technology that could have exposed users’ credit-card numbers, ZDNN, 2 November 2001

“By the first afternoon when the first statistics came in, we knew the figure of a million some people had talked about was a complete fantasy.”

Boo.com cofounder Ernst Malmsten, on realizing his e-commerce site’s 15 minutes of fame were over before it even went live, BBC News, 31 October 2001