“I exist for business reasons. I do not exist as a PR stunt or as sort of an olive branch.”
Bill Hilf, director of a Linux computer lab at Microsoft, distinguishing himself from, say, his colleagues who are paid to blog, News.com, 12 August 2005
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A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON LITIGATED
“The goal remains for us to separate spammers from their money.”
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, on the company’s policy of treating spammers just like the rest of its customers, Wired News, 9 August 2005
DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW
“Why did we stick with Linux? … It was because we could keep on doing exactly what we wanted.”
Google open-source program manager Chris DiBona, on the search engine’s discovery of yet another way to ignore the outside world, Computerworld, 10 August 2005
GETTING OUR PIECE OF THE PIE IN THE SKY
“This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky enterprise software contraption.”
Splunk CEO Michael Baum, on the log-analysis startup’s misplaced ambitions to sell software to the people who use it, News.com, 8 August 2005
DON’T BE CIVIL
“You can put us down for a ‘no comment.'”
Google nonspokesman David Krane, summarizing his employer’s PR strategy, The New York Times, 8 August 2005
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