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“Photo sharing was seen as a loss leader for photo finishing services.”

Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake, on her site’s studied avoidance of anything as limiting as a business model, News.com, 15 December 2005

“We understand that change is hard sometimes, but the new game we have is more Star Wars than ever.”

LucasArts videogame producer Julio Torres, on downgrading multiplayer online game Star Wars Galaxies to match the quality of Episodes I-III, Wired News, 13 December 2005

“Big industry has ruled search, because it was the only player with access to the tools.”

Bruce Gilliat, CEO of a subsidiary of that pipsqueak of industry, Amazon.com, on letting users build search engines to take on rivals Google and Yahoo, Wired News, 13 December 2005

“Although I played a key role in bringing AOL and Time Warner together six years ago, it’s now my view that it would be best to ‘undo’ the merger by splitting Time Warner into several independent companies.”

Former Time Warner chairman Steve Case, saying “oopsy daisy,” The Washington Post, 10 December 2005

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“I consider open-source software to be part of the environment, like the Internet.”

Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie, on making his peace with Linux, The New York Times, 11 December 2005