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Brian Behlendorf
American
Scientist
Born:
Mar 30
,
1973
Been
Good
Nation
Think
Will
World
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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.
Brian Behlendorf
Country
Foreign Aid
Aid
Significant
Pockets
More
Likely
Also
Course
Trade
Foreign
End
Up
Replacement
Dictators
Engage
Amount
In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
Brian Behlendorf
Way
Visibility
Through
Open
True
Open Source
Development
Source
Lots
Process
I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.
Brian Behlendorf
Goodness
Think
Has-Been
Inside
Put
Most
Learned
How
Been
Us
Innate
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.
Brian Behlendorf
Hope
Good
Opportunity
Try
Society
Projects
Recognition
Out
See
More
Could
Good Thing
Take
Like
Well
Mostly
Lot
Get
Apache
Explain
Personally
Certainly
Why
Thing
Things
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
Brian Behlendorf
Great
Soul
Software
Corporations
Out
Tried
Rip
Risk-Taking
Development
Makes
Been
Exploration
I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.
Brian Behlendorf
Nothing
Marketing
Those
Run
About
Knew
How
Nor
Sales
Did
Any
Company
Things
Desire
What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
Brian Behlendorf
Possible
Open
Open Source
Implementation
Gotten
Been
Source
Being
Java
Really
Use
Used
Being Used
Widely
Widespread
Kept
I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.
Brian Behlendorf
Will
Before
Closed
Sit
Faster
Project
Say
Open
Open Source
Came
Source
Lot
Than
Reasons
Whole
Why
Things
Here
Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
Brian Behlendorf
Time
Needs
Software
Maintained
Over
Stable
Asset
I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.
Brian Behlendorf
Will
Example
Software
Immediately
Pretty
Web
Only
Vast
Vast Majority
Open
Open Source
Generic
Particular
For Example
Majority
Opinion
Source
Fits
Person
Site
Behind
Certain
Interface
Useful
User
Company
Niche
Actually
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