WHIP ME, BEAT ME, READ MY EMAIL

“Professionally, I like the idea of the least amount of privacy.”

Joshua Neuman, BMG Music’s creative director, all but begging to be stalked at work, Wired News, 3 February 2000

CLIENT-SELF-SERVER COMPUTING

“You can argue that [ClickStart] is is self-serving. But our feeling is that while this is good for us, it’s also good for the world.”

Novell CEO Eric Schmidt, on a putatively philanthropic program he’s backing to put computers in working-class homes (and churning up demand for his company’s products), Salon.com, 4 February 2000

WHIP ME, BEAT ME, READ MY EMAIL

“Professionally, I like the idea of the least amount of privacy.”

Joshua Neuman, BMG Music’s creative director, all but begging to be stalked at work, Wired News, 3 February 2000

CALL IT THE NEW YORKER OF OPERATING SYSTEMS

“Linux is very often seen as noncommercial, having more highbrow, friendly values.”

Linus Torvalds, on the marketing niche his Linux operating system occupies, ZDNN, 2 February 2000

WE MUST ALL VALUE TOGETHER, OR WE SHALL SURELY VALUE SEPARATELY

“A ‘software product’ should be viewed as ‘functionality separately valued by consumers.'”

Harvard law professor Larry Lessig, explaining a very novel theory of software marketing in an amicus brief filed in U.S. v. Microsoft, The Industry Standard, 1 February 2000