“There was an internal zealot-like attitude where everything was consumer-driven, but the fact of the matter is, it’s a business.”
Yahoo sales executive Gregory Coleman, on defending the online network’s capitalist way of life against homegrown, ideologically motivated threats, News.com, 5 December 2001
“At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top — I’m afraid that’s not quite right.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, explaining to a 15-year-old news correspondent where software comes from, BBC, 7 December 2001
“Software evolves. It isn’t designed. The only question is how strictly you control the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of mutations.”
Linus Torvalds, expounding on Linux’s just slightly unnatural selection, Kerneltrap.com, 30 November 2001
“While TheStandard.com ceased operations in September 2001, IDG.net is working to archive its content. Please check back on Monday, December 5th 2001.”
A message posted on the website of the late, lamented Industry Standard, showing that former parent company International Data Group is as handy with a calendar as it is with the Web, TheStandard.com, 5 December 2001
“The market for e-books has simply not developed the way we hoped, and given the overall economic climate, we can’t jeopardize our thriving print business by carrying a money-losing operation indefinitely into the future.”
Larry Kirshbaum, chairman of Time Warner Trade Publishing, on closing iPublish.com, a venture that redefined publishing as we know it only by being unprofitable, News.com, 4 December 2001
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