“ A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet. Eric S. Raymond
“ It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people. Eric S. Raymond
“ Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environme… Eric S. Raymond
