Eric Allman
Eric Allman
Eric Paul Allmanis an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
behaved computer microsoft software
To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.
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You get a certain amount of cachet. The more people that know about your stuff, the better.
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It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.
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From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.
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Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.
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My guess is you'll see stuff coming out this year, but it will go on longer than that.
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We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later.
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This is like the telephone problem--no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
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People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.
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Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
technology people want
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
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There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.
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Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
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I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.