“You can’t take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of ‘open source,’ and have everything magically work out. Software is hard.”
Mozilla.org hacker emeritus Jamie Zawinski, on his resignation from the Netscape-backed open-source browser project, Jwz.org, 1 April 1999
“Every Internet-related IPO seems to go up with little regard for the company behind the stock.”
Keith Benjamin, an Internet analyst at BancBoston Robertson Stephens, who appears to be just now realizing what the Net stock rally is all about, Wired News, 1 April 1999
“In many ways we’re thrilled to see traditional media companies getting into the business.”
Ethan Zuckerman, vice president of R&D for Lycos’s Tripod subsidiary, on how hopes for a bailout of “community” sites have been lifted by the recent entry of old-media giants into the biz, News.com, 31 March 1999
“The world does not need another Yahoo!”
Lou Dobbs, president of CNN’s financial news division, on how his corporate parent, Time Warner, aims to make sure its next new media play learns absolutely nothing from anyone who’s been remotely successful online, The Wall Street Journal, 30 March 1999 (paid subscription required)
“I have a good memory. I have the equivalent of a Palm Pilot installed neurally.”
Open Source guru and Clue Train conductor Eric Raymond, who, despite his advanced, futuristic mind, appears to be in need of the popular 1MB Professional upgrade, The New York Times, 25 March 1999
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