Author: Matt

“Each site is trying to establish a value add, but when they all offer the same feature, it’s no longer a value add.”

Zona Research analyst Ron Rappaport, displaying insight on the Web portals’ mindless race for features — with some value-added new math of his own, ZDNN, 12 August 1998

“It’s not like we’re in an industry where there’s an accepted business model.”

Mary Furlong, CEO of online seniors community Third Age, defending her company’s refusal to follow such tired notions as earning more money than you spend, Fast Company, 11 August 1998

“If you want people to take out the garbage, you have to pay them. You don’t have to do that to get people to program.”

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, on what drives Linux’s authors to create and distribute an operating system for free, Forbes, 10 August 1998

“We believe the company has a real shot at some day becoming the most respected, and most valuable, company on earth.”

America Online CEO Steve Case, getting a bit giddy in announcing his company’s fourth-quarter results, Wired News, 4 August 1998

“There is no killer app. It’s just Windows.”

J. Allard, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet software unit and master of strategic understatement, making friends at the Department of Justice left and right, The New York Times, 6 August 1998