“I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go…. At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.”
Microsoft exec Jim Allchin, on his company’s demands for free Windows desktop icons in exchange for granting a license to PC makers, eWeek, 6 August 2001
“Napster ist nicht tot.”
Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers, insisting Teutonically that the out-of-service file-sharing network isn’t dead, Stern, 8 August 2001
“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.”
Virtual surrealist Jaron Lanier, on the computer industry’s carefully honed user-surliness, The New York Times, 7 August 2001
“Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.”
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, on how his newfound rapport with Madison Avenue means that advertisers know what he is — all they’re discussing is the price, CBS MarketWatch, 6 August 2001
“A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be — delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.”
RIAA president Hilary Rosen, on a Congressional bill that would require labels to license their music to sites that aren’t wholly-owned subsidiaries, ZDNN, 3 August 2001
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