2003: Mass High Tech: Great Wide Open (Source)
“To that end, [Chief Administrator of Technical Support
Scott] Akers is advocating a [Massachusetts Department of Revenue]
switch to open source/Linux, and he speaks of the possibility with
the fervor of an activist…”
2002: Boston.com: Sun rise – or Sun set
“…He paid $25,000 a month for his Sun and Silicon
Graphics workstations. Today, he does the same work on Linux boxes
that cost him a one-time payment of $30,000. Now imagine thousands
of Sun customers making the same decision, and it’s easy to see why
guys like Lucas have Sun’s executives losing sleep.”
1999: Eric S. Raymond on the Open Source Summit
“I didn’t see “hackers vs. suits” at the Summit — just
a whole bunch of people trying in various ways to get a handle on a
very powerful and complex phenomenon…”