Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week | Internet News

Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

Jul 19, 2013
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“The constant drumbeat of critical Oracle patches is more than a little alarming, particularly because the vulnerabilities are frequently reported by third parties who presumably do not have access to full source code”


Tripwire security researcher Craig Young, talking about Oracle’s 89 flaw July Patch update (eSecurity Planet)

“It’s a small company and you know all the things you have to do, but you never have enough warm bodies to do them”

Markus Rex, CEO ownCloud (Datamation)

“Violence, whether it be physical intimidation, verbal threats or verbal abuse is not acceptable”


Linux kernel developer, Sarah Sharp taking aim at Linus Torvald’s behavior (InternetNews)

“I curse when there isn’t any argument. The cursing happens for the “you’re so f*cking wrong that it’s not even worth trying to make logical arguments about it, because you have no possible excuse” case”


Linus Torvalds justifying his use of language (LKML)

“The power of open source really is universal and global”

Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation on the open source cloud platform’s third birthday (Datamation)

<P><em>Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at  Datamation and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter <A HREF=http://www.twitter.com/techjournalist>@TechJournalist</a>.</em>

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