Archive for August 10th, 2005

DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW

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

GETTING OUR PIECE OF THE PIE IN THE SKY

August 10, 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