THE NETWORK IS THE DISPUTER

“Bill and Greg are kind of stalling, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that they want to make sure they got it all right.”

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, reporting on the progress his CTO and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates integrating their companies’ products, News.com, 18 October 2004

BITING THE STANDARD THAT FEEDS YOU

“I guess my overall message is, let’s be kind to RSS; don’t try to exploit it.”

Blogger Dave Winer, who still believes he’s the only one allowed to exploit a newsfeed format he helped popularize, Wired News, 15 October 2004

THE GIFT OF GRAB

“No administration has ever mounted such a comprehensive approach to defending America’s gift to the world — our creativity.”

RIAA president Mitch Bainwol, on Justice Department recommendations that file sharers do hard time, 14 October 2004

USE IT OR LOSE IT

“One of the most amazing things over the last six or seven years is watching Microsoft basically get a monopoly over the browser and then not use it.”

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, on Microsoft’s bizarrely benign behavior, PC Advisor, 8 October 2004