#software

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#does #even #fine #licensing #out

It should be noted that no ethically -trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. ↗

— Nathaniel S. Borenstein

#programming #software #humor

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#generation #gives #head #head start #next

I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#along #been #browser #build #client

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#collaborate #customers #distribute #employee #feedback

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#back #beat #come #day #free

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#due #engineering #indeed #lack #largely

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#beings #conducted #development #human #human beings

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it. ↗

— Will Wright

#anything #bugs #complexities #fully #i

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#ever #made #none #our #run