“This year, BrainShare don’t do no stinkin’ Windows!”
Novell CEO Jack Messman, promising a Microsoft-free conference to a Linux-addled crowd (and hoping they’d ignore the dozen Windows XP machines in the press room), Computerworld, 22 March 2004
SPAM ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU
“We hope spammers are thinking twice before hitting the send button.”
America Online spokesman Nicholas Graham, on hopes of litigating spammers away, News.com, 18 March 2004
THAT EXPLAINS THE GEIGER COUNTER SPAM
“Antivirus technology development is now a radioactive no-man’s land.”
Cybersecurity consultant George Smith, on the feeble state of most antivirus software,Wired News, 18 March 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62558,00.html
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS OPERATING SYSTEMS?
“Is Microsoft happy that we’re doing Linux stuff? Absolutely not.”
Hewlett-Packard executive Martin Fink, on selling Linux PCs in Asia, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 March 2004
INTERNET + INFERIOR = INTERIOR!
“The interest of the 300,000-plus current beneficiaries of the individual Indian trust outweigh the potential inconvenience of those parties that would otherwise have access to Interior’s Internet services.”
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, ordering the Department of the Interior unplugged from the Internet for lax security, The Washington Post, 16 March 2004
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