Day: August 10, 2005

“Why did we stick with Linux? … It was because we could keep on doing exactly what we wanted.”

Google open-source program manager Chris DiBona, on the search engine’s discovery of yet another way to ignore the outside world, Computerworld, 10 August 2005

“This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky enterprise software contraption.”

Splunk CEO Michael Baum, on the log-analysis startup’s misplaced ambitions to sell software to the people who use it, News.com, 8 August 2005