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Eric Raymond Quotes

«The Cathedral and the Bazaar.»
Author: Eric Raymond
«On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?»
Author: Eric Raymond
«You're sending us to go talk to the PC manufacturers and the PC manufacturers say go talk to Microsoft. How are we supposed to get our refund?»
Author: Eric Raymond
«The fact that this is a very international effort is manifested in the code -- our tools have stronger international support than you will get ordinarily from proprietary software.»
Author: Eric Raymond
«The fact that [the summit] is happening at all, the fact that people in these sub-tribes see a need to come together and speak to each other says something in itself»
Author: Eric Raymond
«Indirectly, the impact [of LSB] will be large on [enterprise deployments], ... As independent software vendors develop confidence that they can maintain a single Linux binary port for all LSB-conformant distributions, many more enterprise applications will become available.»
Author: Eric Raymond
«A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil.»
Author: Eric Raymond
«People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of people creates a better end result, ... For some reason, we forgot that when it came to developing software.»
Author: Eric Raymond
«You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.»
Author: Eric Raymond
«Of course they're using it, ... It doesn't suck.»
Author: Eric Raymond