Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Hatred was a plant of slow growth.
If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you. It's just because I can't. Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets from each other. " -Cass
Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.
Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.