Michael Tiemann Quotes

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

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

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. - Michael Tiemann

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. - Michael Tiemann

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? - Michael Tiemann

Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing. - Michael Tiemann

His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open 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. - Michael Tiemann

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. - Michael Tiemann

Any line of code I write could in fact trip across a patent I never even knew existed, and that's a problem for innovation, and it's a problem for open source. - Michael Tiemann

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