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"So right now the only vendor that does such a stupid thing is Microsoft." | "So right now the only vendor that does such a stupid thing is Microsoft." |
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-- Linus Torvalds on bad file system interface design. (Open Sources , 1999 O'Reilly and Associates.) |
-- Linus Torvalds on bad file system interface design. (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"Eric also holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and shoots pistols for relaxation, His favorite gun is the classic 1911-pattern .45 semiautomatic" | "Eric also holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and shoots pistols for relaxation, His favorite gun is the classic 1911-pattern .45 semiautomatic" |
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-- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"Computers and autmation have become so ingrained and essentaial to day-to-day business that a sensible business should not rely on a single vendor to provide essential services........Thus is is always in a customers' interests to demand that the software they deploy be based on non-proprietary platforms." |
"Computers and autmation have become so ingrained and essentaial to day-to-day business that a sensible business should not rely on a single vendor to provide essential services...Thus it is always in customers' interests to demand that the software they deploy be based on non-proprietary platforms." |
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-- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"Nature abhors a Vacuum" |
"Nature abhors a vacuum" |
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-- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"While not obviously a business-friendly licensem there are certain aspects of the GNU license which are attractive, believe it or not, for commercial purposes." |
"While not obviously a business-friendly license, there are certain aspects of the GNU license which are attractive, believe it or not, for commercial purposes." |
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-- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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-- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"The basic publication series for te IETF is the RFC series. RPF once stood for 'Request for Comments,' but since documents published as RFCs have generally gone through an extensive review process before publication, RFC is now best known understood to mean 'RFC' " |
"The basic publication series for the IETF is the RFC series. RPC once stood for 'Request for Comments,' but since documents published as RFCs have generally gone through an extensive review process before publication, RFC is now best known understood to mean 'RFC' " |
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-- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"The IETF motto is 'rouch consesus and running code'" |
"The IETF motto is 'rough consesus and running code'" |
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-- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"Open Standars, Open Documents, and Open Source" |
"Open Standards, Open Documents, and Open Source" |
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-- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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-- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"Of course, in Perl culture, almost nothis is prohibited. My feeling is that the rest of the world already has plenty of perfectly good prohibitions, so why invent more?" |
"Of course, in Perl culture, almost nothing is prohibited. My feeling is that the rest of the world already has plenty of perfectly good prohibitions, so why invent more?" |
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-- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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-- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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"In a way they were right the basics of operating systems, and by extension the Linux kernel, were well understood by the early 70s; anything after that has been to some degree an exercise in self-gratification." |
"In a way they were right - the basics of operating systems, and by extension the Linux kernel, were well understood by the early 70s; anything after that has been to some degree an exercise in self-gratification." |
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-- Linus Torvalds (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) | -- Linus Torvalds (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |
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