Michael Tiemann Quotes (7 Quotes)

But looking for the effect of proprietary software on the open source community is like trying to measure the gravitational effect of the earth on the orbit of the Sun.

When the people are invested with the power to control their own destiny, they take an interest.

The stakes are very high in how we construct the future of the Internet, ... Do we want a winner-takes-all scenario for whichever company ultimately creates that particular piece of intellectual property that maximizes interoperability (across systems) or do we want to create a commons

This represents our entrance into the Internet appliance or 'post-PC device' market. These tools will help developers create applications for things like point-of-sale terminals, digital jukeboxes, and even car stereos,

His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial freeopen source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000 times more powerful than the force of proprietary principles on the open source community.

To build an architecture of trust, it is better to be open than to seem open and better to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy.

We will provide software to get Internet devices - thin servers, point of sale terminals, digital set-top boxes - up and running with Linux.