Eric S. Raymond Quotes

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.

I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

Microsoft loves Linux.

We've had a relationship with Microsoft for a while. It's bigger than just Xbox - we use Azure for some of our cloud stuff. PC Windows is a very big platform for us as well.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

It's important to note that aggression isn't the problem. It's the outcome of a problem.