Eric Allman
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"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.

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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."

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.