"Wine isn't specifically mentioned, but the company [Corel] says it will continue to develop Linux applications and presumably this means the Wine contribution will continue. This means that a Microsoft controlled company is going to play a major role in the development of Wine. Is anyone looking at the antitrust implications of that?"

"The presence of a commercial aspect to Linux in no way hinders or reduces the development of free and open-source software. Indeed, the inverse is true: The more corporate IT departments involved in Linux, the broader the pool of talent from whom ideas can be drawn, the greater number of people who will be contributing code."

"Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company completely lost its mind?"

"In my opinion X is a dog. It is a hefty chunk of software which sits under the desktop software and slows the system down quite a lot. X does have many advantages such as network transparency, but I ask the question "does the featureset of X warrant its weight on the system?"

"The open source movement is no threat to the software industry or to intellectual property. It is threatening to Microsoft and its protectionist practices of the past. The reason Jim doesn’t like the open source movement is because it is doing the same thing to Microsoft that Microsoft does to other companies."

"A .NET component aggregator would be a lot like a Linux distributor - they would provide an installation program that pulls these components together in a unified, integrated, and well-tested whole. Maybe lots of users will like the service that these aggregators provide, and we'll start seeing hundreds of Microsoft Office distributions on CD-ROM, all slightly different!"

"There's really no need for Bill Gates and his people to fear the loss of their intellectual property," e-smith CEO Joseph Morrison said. "The truth is, we don't want their code. Why would we, when we already have something that's much better for our customers?"

"What happens when a pair of companies with competing interests decide to meet on a common platform and work to better it while angling for slices of each others' markets. I've got an optimist and a cynic, one for each shoulder."

"Linux is a global phenomenon. The global revolution is going to happen, regardless of the legislation passed in America. You want to import more programmers from around the globe, but at the same time you don't think that their ideas will make it in too? You want to import talent from around the globe, but you think you will keep out something like Linux?"

"In three years, I've never had to do anything as rash as a complete system backup, wipe, and reinstall -- a yearly or semi-yearly necessity in my Windows days."