“I look at Linux as yet another Unix…. It’s a kissing cousin. I don’t think Solaris and Linux would be allowed to marry.”
Sun CEO Scott McNealy, raising unanticipated legal concerns about his company’s recent acquisition of a Linux server manufacturer, News.com, 6 February 2001
“There really isn’t much value in free.”
Microsoft executive Doug Miller — who works for a company that provides free email, a free browser, and six months of free Internet access — on the value of Linux, Wired News, 31 January 2001
“We’ll ferociously manage the products we carry so that we sell only products that are profitable. The thirty-pound box of nails isn’t long for our world.”
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, in a company memo about plans to make money selling things by selling things that make money, The Wall Street Journal, 2 February 2001
“We’re very focused on profitability and that’s the light at the end of the tunnel for us.”
Epinions CEO Nirav Tolia, on the company’s sudden discovery that it didn’t need 24 of its 88 employees, News.com, 30 January 2001
“As artists we have always been screwed by the music majors. Napster and the file sharers are screwing us all over again. To be screwed from two different directions simultaneously, that’s very worrying.”
Singer Peter Gabriel, on feeling that the musical three-way proposed by Bertelsmann and Napster is more than a little bit nonconsensual, The Independent, 30 January 2001
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