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Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

- Brian Behlendorf
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Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.

Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

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Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.