We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."
"Eric Paul Allman" is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous scientists! More Eric Allman on Wikipedia.From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.
I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.
It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.
Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.
My guess is you'll see stuff coming out this year, but it will go on longer than that.
You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
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