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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

I just became one with my browser software.

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.