Larry Augustin Quotations

Linux guys give their parents Linux machines. They can configure them so their parents can't delete applications. They just log in and get their e-mail.

Linux guys give their parents Linux machines, ... They can configure them so their parents can't delete applications. They just log in and get their e-mail.

We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.

With development infrastructure, sometimes we would find (companies) spending more time working on the (Linux) infrastructure for the project than working on the project itself.

While top and bottom-line results did not meet our expectations for the quarter, we remain optimistic about our prospects for growth in the future. We remain committed to profitability, excluding non-cash charges, no later than the end of calendar 2001 and we anticipate revenue for fiscal 2001 to be approximately 2.25 times fiscal 2000 revenue.

We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business model that was proven.

The wrong way is to open a Linux company that acts as a wall between the developer and the user,

This acquisition effectively creates a Yahoo! for Linux and open source developers,

In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent.

If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux.

The dot.com businesses started out with all these different business models. It wasn't clear that anyone really knew how they were going to make money, and we've had that fallout and transition, ... At the same time, a lot of established businesses picked up on the Web.