Nat Friedman quotes

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free. (Nat Friedman)
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future. View quote
Nat Friedman
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. View quote
Nat Friedman
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life. View quote
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We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN. View quote
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. View quote
Nat Friedman
People rag on western medicine a lot for its disregard of indirect causalities and holism, for its antisceptic deconstructivism, for its blindness to things like the union of mind and body, and for its proclivity for post-facto treatment...But these criticisms notwithstanding, modern medicine is the accumulation of years and years of human effort to taxonomically observe, understand and explain an enormous set of conditions within a massively complex, underspecified system. To me, this is impressive. Also, they use cool phrases like "the radiolucent lungs" and "ligamentous laxity." View quote
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If ordinary people can really figure out how to set the alarm at a hotel, then we are going to make OpenOffice default to vi keybindings in the next Novell Linux Desktop. View quote
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. View quote
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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. View quote
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Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. (Nat Friedman)
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. View quote
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool. View quote
Nat Friedman