Mozilla will be around long after nobody can remember just quite what
Internet Explorer actually used to be.  - AirLace, Slashdot
%
MP3 the king is a mighty warrior, but he's showing new wounds. Ogg
[Vorbis] is the successor to the throne ... In this case, Open Source
is not a compromise; Vorbis is the best out there. - Monty, Slashdot
%
The browser wars won't be over until Mozilla stomps IE.
 - Proudrooster, Slashdot
%
By making an enemy of open source and Linux, Microsoft fights its own
customers. By supporting open source and Linux, IBM helps those same
customers. Those customers comprise the marketplace. Who do you think
is better positioned to win? - Doc Searls, SuitWatch
%
If SoBig.F wasn't enough to send companies over to Linux, Office 2003
might be the straw that broke the camel's back. - Joe Brockmeier, LWN
%
Linux is 90% of the way there - but getting the final 10% of the way
requires a level of money, effort and fascism that doesn't exist in
the Linux community. - Doc Searls, SuitWatch
%
Binary-only applications for other operating systems die with their
birth environments, but Unix sources are forever. Forever, at least,
given a Unix technical culture that polishes and maintains them across
decades. - Eric S. Raymond
%
The open-source movement seems on the verge of winning its bid to
define the computing infrastructure of tomorrow - and the core of
that infrastructure will be Unix machines running on the Internet.
 - Eric S. Raymond
%
Linux isn't a vendor product. Never was, never will be. It's not even
a product. It's a project by a development community that includes many
vendors but isn't driven by any of them. - Doc Searls, SuitWatch
%
I use Debian with Enthusiasm. [...] Just stay away from dselect, keep a
"Default" in your apt.conf, never rm anything you didn't create and you
won't get frustrated. - Ian B. MacDonald
%
Q: Aren't there too many Linux security patches around?
A: Having a choice is not bad. One size does not fit all. It is only
   a problem when you do not know how to choose or when you think your
   OS religion is the Only True OS Religion(tm) and you do not like
   people to choose something else. - Adamantix FAQ
%
I refuse to believe that the really hot, Debian-using,
password-sniffing, root-exploiting geek girl is a myth. 
 - g1zmo, Slashdot
%
People get worried about .NET and decide to rewrite their whole
architecture for .NET because they think they have to. Microsoft
is shooting at you, and it's just cover fire so that they can move
forward and you can't, because this is how the game is played, Bubby.
  - Joel Spolsky, January 2004
%
...not only does my 8 year old girl use Linux, ... she installed and
updated Mandrake 9.2 this weekend with very little guidance. ... Man,
I beam with pride everytime I see my little girl use the command line.
 - spacecowboy240, Slashdot, February 2004
%
How is making C# a standard on Windows and Linux going to hurt
Microsoft? ... Their enemies are now working, for free, to extend
Microsoft's monopoly onto new platforms. ... Mono and dotGNU have
no practical use, and exist only with the patronage of Microsoft.
 - Neil Davidson, The Register, February 2004
%
The next time you hear someone say that using Linux is hard, tell them that
you know of one four-year-old who has been handling it daily for more than
a year. Linux is not hard unless you convince yourself that it is.
 - Jim Westbrook, Newsforge, April 2004
%
Wake up people, releasing ISO's should be done through BitTorrent.
Then, instead of Slashdot making it impossible to download,
it harnesses the power of Slashdot to make it faster to download.
 - deinol, Slashdot, April 2004
%
There are always new features waiting to be added. All that's needed
is time, and will. Who knows when the muse will strike?
 - David Goodger, May 2004
%
We have a hack in our flavor of Wine, in the CreateProcess call (the code
to start an executable) that basically checks to see if the parent process
is outlook.exe, and if it is, we crash and burn, preventing many of the
worms and such from running. - Jeremy White, May 2004
%
Any security software design that doesn't assume the enemy
possesses the source code is already untrustworthy; therefore,
never trust closed source. - Eric Raymond, May 2004
%
...it's easier to add documentation and support to Linux than
security to Windows. - Dan DeMaggio, CRYPTO-GRAM, June 2003
%
Just did a bit of research (well, if you can call "apt-cache search" and
"apt-cache show" research). - Iolando, Linux Weekly News, September 2004
%
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music
by David Cassidy. - Rob Pike on Slashdot, October 2004
%
I love Apache, but in the same way I love my wife: with some trepidation.
Fast and stable, flexible and reliable, but make one little syntax error
and you can lose your ass. - legLess on Slashdot, July 2005
%
A lot of the folks here are extraordinarily intelligent and capable of
extreme levels of dedicated effort. ... If one of them set his mind on
evil, he could take over the world. (On the other hand, he couldn't be
as evil as the people who *are* taking over the world.)
 - Andy Oram about the Ottawa Linux Symposium 2005
%
...Linux security has been better than many rivals. However, even
the best systems today are totally inadequate. Saying Linux is
more secure than Windows isn't really addressing the bigger issue
 - neither is good enough. - Alan Cox, September 2005
%
I get tons of people stopping me in the street in Cape Town again,
but instead of asking "what's weightlessness like" they want to know
about Open Source. The answer to both questions? "Liberating" :-)
 - Mark Shuttleworth on Slashdot, April 2005
%
On a personal note, Xara is the main reason why I still haven't switched
to a Linux desktop for myself. I can't live without my Xara... now it
looks like I'll finally be able to switch! Tonight, I will literally go
out and toast to Xara. This is the best news I've had in months.
  - GooseKirk on Slashdot, October 2005
%
On proprietary platforms, eventually you'll run into "you can't do that."
On open platforms, you'll run into "you have to learn more to do that."
 - Ian Smith-Heisters, October 2005
%
You asked about my "path to world domination". Well, I guess I want
the whole world to be like the Oberlin CS Lab was: a sharing community
where people assume that improving the system is within anyone's reach.
 - Karl Fogel, November 2005
%
...we're trying to leverage this technology shift to make a way for
hackers to get rich writing open source software, without going through
the process of starting a startup. - Glyph Lefkowitz, November 2005
%
It is rare to find a corporate environment where the project team has any-
thing approaching the level of planning, documentation, or review found in
successful open source projects. For some reason, as soon as a budget and a
deadline are involved, all of the lessons we've learned over the years and
applied successfully to open source projects seem to fly out the window.
 - Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, February 2006
%
One important shortcoming of open source projects is that oftentimes they
are just done on a programmer's whim. On the other hand, the problem with
many corporate projects is that they're just done on a vice president's
whim. The best projects - in both worlds - are the ones that actually ful-
fill real needs of real users, and aren't just someone's pet project.
 - Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, February 2006
%
Ubuntu is everything you love about Debian, and none of what you don't.
Package management that "just works" 99% of the time, a good community
to help if it doesn't, and actual releases. - Jason Clark, May 2006
%
  I must add my voice here in strong opposition of the removal of
cryptoloop from the 2.6 series of [Linux] kernels. - Brandon Low
  Maybe we can leave cryptoloop there with big "kindergarten crypto
- do not use" labels all over it. - Andrew Morton, February 2004
%
Users need to give developers the input they need to start specifying the
Linux boxes that hardware vendors will build alongside, or instead of,
Vista boxes. These new boxes need to address actual customer demand,
and serve customers in ways that put both Apple and Microsoft to shame.
 - Doc Searls, December 2006
%
I'm not expecting Ubuntu to be perfect, but I am now certain it will be
enough better to compensate me for the fact that I need to learn a new
set of administration tools. Fedora, you had every advantage, and you
had my loyalty, and you blew it. And that is a damn, dirty shame.
 - Eric S. Raymond, February 2007
%
I have a philosophical/economical/Darwinian reason for preferring open
source technology development to proprietary models: decentralized,
emergent development models work better than central planning for broadly
applicable technologies like Flash. - Anne Zelenka, January 2007
%
I run KDE (instead of Gnome) for one main reason: GTK (or Gnome) apps
work *fine* under KDE (just as good as they run under Gnome). [...]
And they even integrate nicely in KDE. BUT, if I run Gnome and want
to use Kopete, Amarok or K3B there, it just doesn't work nicely.
 - Anonymous on Aaron J. Seigo's blog, September 2007
%
Live by the penguin, die by the penguin.
 - Mark Pilgrim, October 2007
%
My .emacs is 41 lines and it never changes. It uses emacs-major-version
and emacs-minor-version to find and load a version-specific .emacs for
the running version. That file is 899 lines. It conditionally loads bits
and pieces of code from 41 files in another directory containing a total
of 4668 lines of elisp that I've written over the years...
 - Terry Jones, September 2006
%
VI is a roman number. ED is a 2-note tune. Red is a color. Emacs is an
editor. You cannot edit a file with a roman number. You cannot edit a
file with a tune. You cannot edit a file with a color. Therefore, if
you want to edit a file, use emacs. - Thierry Bezecourt, July 2000
%
Members of the open source community must view with deep cynicism
all - not just some - offers by Microsoft to work more closely with
the free software world. If they don't, they could find themselves
used and abused just like the once famous, and now former,
International Standards Organisation. - Glyn Moody, Marzo 2008
%
The GPL police won't show up at your door and confiscate your computers.
The only people who make those claims are GPL-haters like Microsoft. Who
should you trust: the FSF or Microsoft? If you answered "Microsoft" then
you need to get your head screwed on straight. - Ian Bicking, May 2008
%
The Internet runs on free software, and not because it has copied
anything from Microsoft. The proprietary software guys like to accuse
free software of not innovating [...]. That's just not true, but guys
like the Mono Project are reinforcing that stereotype.
 - Mark Shuttleworth, June 2008
%
Just because Fedora have not adopted dpkg as their base packaging format
[...], does not mean that they're not interested in cross-distribution
collaboration. Of course, it would be nice if RPM simply ceased to exist,
but that's not going to happen [...]. - daniels, LWN, August 2008
%
Katzer's quest for money has so far only resulted in making Open Source
stronger, while so far gaining Katzer nothing. Thank you, Mr. Katzer,
and a more sincere thanks to the many attorneys who helped to win the
appeal, and to Jacobsen's attorney, all of whom are providing their
services to Jacobsen for free. - Bruce Perens, October 2008
%
Desmond Tutu possesses that sense of generosity, that spirit of unity,
that essence of humanity that South Africans know simply as Ubuntu.
 - Barack Obama, August 2009
%
Finché si parla di Ruby vs Python, Django vs Rails, ecc. posso capire
si tratti un pochino di guerre di religione. Ma PostgreSQL vs MySql
non è una guerra di religione: è una guerra di liberazione.
 - Marco Beri, gennaio 2010
Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/
%
I have never heard Mark Shuttleworth, Jono Bacon, or anyone representing
Ubuntu or Canonical put down other Linux distributions or contributors.
In my grumpier moments their relentlessly positive, cult-like Kumbaya-
or-else approach makes me want to turn the hose on them. But I don't
remember them attacking anyone else the way they've been attacked.
 - Carla Schroeder, July 2010
%
Many people are starting to understand this: Ubuntu is
Debian’s arrow, Debian is Ubuntu’s bow. Neither instrument
is particularly useful on its own, except in a museum of
anthropology. - Mark Shuttleworth, November 2011