“If you spend a dollar with a local company working on Linux, that dollar stays in your economy. When you spend a dollar with a multinational corporation as a license fee for a piece of software, that dollar leaves your country.”
Sun Microsystems executive Simon Phipps, making a curious argument against the very practice that provides him with a steady paycheck, BBC News, 2 February 2004
“A certain percentage of customers are going to choose the Mac platform. I certainly want Microsoft to be selling those customers productivity software rather than somebody else.”
Tim McDonough, an executive at Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit, on his mission to make sure Microsoft’s office software monopoly outperforms its operating system monopoly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 30 January 2004
“The CIOs who buy Itanium are more conservative than Pat Buchanan.”
Future former Intel spokesman Bill Kircos, chalking up slow 64-bit chip sales to retrograde customers, not product flaws, News.com, 29 January 2004
“People who don’t know each other very well are trying to develop fast and facile friendships. It’s really, really ironic that software for automating social processes is making interactions worse.”
Blogger and novelist Cory Doctorow, unknowingly observing that social networking startups have perfectly realized the aims of American society, Wired News, 28 January 2004
“To say a system is secure because no one is attacking it is very dangerous.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the upside of the flood of viruses his software has enabled, News.com, 27 January 2004
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