36 Quotes by Nat Friedman

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.

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.

One of the things that people like about apt-get is having an easy-to-use software catalog at their fingertips, so if you want to install some missing software on your machine, you can do it with a quick command.

Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX.

GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have a documented set of human interface guidelines.

We're offloading a lot of the work to the hardware. The result is things look and feel a lot smoother.

Our goal of Desktop 10 is to build a really easy-to-use, powerful desktop for general knowledge workers. These are people who live in e-mail, in the browser, in the office suite -- not people who need a hundred different applications, but people whose lives really consist of just living in those applications.

Our turnaround time on fixes for document importing issues is actually averaging 24-48 hours, which is pretty remarkable.

Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.