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We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.
Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.
Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .
With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.
Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.
Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value
It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.
Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.
Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.
Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.
This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.
Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.
I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.
I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.
A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.
The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.
There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.
By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.