WE’RE STICKING WITH THE OLD-FASHIONED FBI FILES

“This will be first law in the nation to ensure that this type of technology is never used to create files on consumers.”

California state senator Liz Figueroa (D.-Logitech), on her quixotic campaign to forbid Google from providing free email, News.com, 25 May 2004

NEW, IMPROVED, WITH EXTRA LAWYERS!

“Some of you may have heard of this crazy company called SCO (aka ‘Smoking Crack Organization’) who seem to have a hard time believing that open source works better than their five engineers do.”

Linus Torvalds, explaining who’s to blame for the new paperwork Linux developers have to fill out when they contribute code to the open-source operating system, Wired News, 24 May 2004