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.
Eric Raymond
The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
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?
information money power blush
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?
talk
effort tools support fact code software
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
people speak fact
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.
confidence enterprise independent impact single software
A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil.
evil pretty
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.
people reason end imperfect learned result software
You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better,.. It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.
people random software
Of course they're using it,.. It doesn't suck.
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
science
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