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This acquisition effectively creates a Yahoo! for Linux and open source developers,


Larry Augustin

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BARTON GELLMAN This collaboration and evaluation effort will make Red Hat Enterprise Linux the most secure open-sou...
BRIAN STEVENS For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a pr...
OLAF CARLSON-WEE If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux.
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BRIAN ROBERTSON We are committed to providing developers with an open, easy-to-use platform to build applications an...
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TED FARRELL The acquisition...will enable Yahoo to further our goal of extending Yahoo beyond the browser and on...
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FRANK GILLETT IBM creates the framework for the developers to write the applications.
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LINUS TORVALDS Open-source and free [databases] demonstrated to us that there is an opportunity among a broader com...
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JOHN PESCATORE One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I t...
LINUS TORVALDS May the source be with you.
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STACEY QUANDT It's good for open source – it validates the value that open source provides.
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JEFFERY MCMANUS For me, open source is a moral thing.
MATT MULLENWEG This is definitely a step for Yahoo, and a step for the industry.
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KETAN R SHAH This is a relevant question. I would say the open-source community is waiting for an answer,
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CARLO PIANA Demand for tech talent in Waterloo Region is intensifying. From software developers to seasoned sale...
IAIN KLUGMAN This is a fairly significant step ahead for Yahoo.
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MARK RYAN It basically tells developers that if you are coding in PHP, you are welcome and we would love to ha...
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PAVAN YADIKI Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn't mix.
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CHRIS WOOD Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open sourc...
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JASON MAYNARD This works because merchants have a high cost of customer acquisition, and we lower it, ... We bring...
BILL GROSS Novell is a strong proponent of open standards and open source. We're tapping Ajax in the Novell-led...
JEFF JAFFE Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.
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LINUS TORVALDS This announcement is focused on the infrastructure part of open source.
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STEVE JOBS This has crucial implications for Linux on desktops.
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FRANK AQUILA This approach puts us on the leading edge of open-source development.
ROB HUGHES The wrong way is to open a Linux company that acts as a wall between the developer and the user,
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LARRY MCMURTRY Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a nati...
LARRY MCMURTRY A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
LARRY MCMURTRY Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its...
LARRY MACPHAIL I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, ...
LARRY MACPHAIL When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go ...
LARRY MACPHAIL The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and r...
LARRY MACPHAIL The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fi...
LARRY MACPHAIL It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an eco...
LARRY MACPHAIL I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within ...
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