Eric Allman Quotations

My guess is you'll see stuff coming out this year, but it will go on longer than that.

This is like the telephone problem--no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later.

You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better.

Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.

From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.

It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.

To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.