Category Archives: Quote of the Day

QoTD: Mark Shuttleworth

Every company has its blowhards and its various good guys. We have ours.” — Mark Shuttleworth compares and contrasts Canonical and Red Hat
Tomorrow’s news: Canonical blowhard count apparently steady, despite Waugh resignation.

QoTD: Jeff V. Merkey

It’s official. Microsoft and Novell will now fork Linux.” — Jeff V. Merkey on lkml
That’s right everybody, Merkey’s back! Woohoo! Let’s all get hammered and punch baby seals!

QoTD: Bryan Clark

Behind this chilling professional corporate persona… there is someone who has probably signed up for too many [Web 2.0] accounts.” — Bryan Clark, on weighing corporate acceptance with a publically incompetent life on the Internet

QoTD: Matt Mullenweg

I have no problem with someone creating Knock-OffPress — that’s one of the freedoms of the GPL and those who would trade freedom for security of their business deserve neither.” — Matt Mullenweg interview on Blogging Pro

QoTD: Havoc Pennington

And I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to filing some completely unreasonable window manager bug and then raising hell when the maintainer rejects my demands. ;-)” — Havoc Pennington, about Compiz on d-d-l

QoTD: Steve Garrity

People pay a lot of money for whitespace these days.” — Steve Garrity, at lunch today
Bonus quote: “What’s with this theatre? It’s like we’re all here in Marie Antoinette’s vagina!” — Jon Stewart, live at the Wang Theatre in Boston last Friday

QoTD: Raven Zachary

As we’ve seen with open-source projects before, with market share comes business opportunity.” — Raven Zachary on Open Source business models, in this case, Ubuntu

QoTD: Jeff Mahoney

The solution for replacing an aging file system isn’t to switch to a brand new unproven file system, but rather a proven one with a clear upgrade path. That file system is ext3.” — Jeff Mahoney of SUSE Labs, proposing a return to sanity

QoTD: Val Henson

I used DTrace extensively while I was working on Solaris and got used to being able to answer any question I had about a system with a few minutes of script writing. When I went back to work on Linux and could no longer use DTrace, I felt like I went from wielding a sharp […]

QoTD: Tony Abbott

The adage, ‘governments lose elections, oppositions don’t win them’, remains true but it’s no longer enough for the government to be incompetent. If voters think that the opposition is more or less equally inept, they will stick with the devil they know.” — Tony Abbott, Labor states are riding Howard’s wave
… because that’s precisely what happened at […]