Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.
From Mitch Kapor
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.
There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed.
Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.
The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.
I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.
The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.
The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.
I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.
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