“China is still very poor. Without our own operating system we can’t do anything, we’re completely at the mercy of Microsoft.”
Sun Yufang, chairman of Chinese Linux distributor Red Flag Software, Salon.com, 9 August 2001
TRIPLE THREAT
“Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”
Intel chairman Andy Grove, on how the Net disrupted PC veterans’ planned obsolescence, ZDNN, 10 August 2001
HEY, BIG SPENDER
“It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.”
Loudcloud CEO Ben Horowitz, on discovering that big corporations didn’t want to buy the cow if they could get the milk at a discount, News.com, 13 August 2001
THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO RAISE NEW FUNDING
“The financial climate is the worst it’s been in 25 years.”
Salon CEO Michael O’Donnell, claiming that his website’s layoff of 14 employees exceeds the fiscal brutality of the Reagan Recession, the Crash of ’87, the Gulf War, and the 1998 Asian Crisis, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 August 2001
DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
“I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go…. At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.”
Microsoft exec Jim Allchin, on his company’s demands for free Windows desktop icons in exchange for granting a license to PC makers, eWeek, 6 August 2001
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