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Quotes by Eric Raymond

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And I know what the emergency was. He was buying Andover.net.
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A lot of us do think Microsoft is pretty evil.
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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?
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Of course they're using it, ... It doesn't suck.
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You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.
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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.
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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.
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Way too many obvious junk patents have been issued for things that are obvious to any engineer, and those are being used to suppress competition. I don't see this bill fixing that.
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Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.