Nat Friedman famous quotes

There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
-- Nat Friedman

#People #Machines #Use

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
-- Nat Friedman

#Real #Nice #Deployment

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
-- Nat Friedman

#Evolution #Mono

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
-- Nat Friedman

#Sweet #Thinking #Simple

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
-- Nat Friedman

#Facts #Momentum #Linux

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
-- Nat Friedman

#Ratios #Software #Higher

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
-- Nat Friedman

#People #Tools #Use

As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.
-- Nat Friedman

#Writing #Hard Work #People

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
-- Nat Friedman

#Creating #Issues #Guy

I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.
-- Nat Friedman

#Fun #Moving #Home

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
-- Nat Friedman

#Fire #Progress #Unhappy