Brian Behlendorf

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development. ”

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations. ”

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java. ”

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things. ”

So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too. ”

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. ”

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one. ”