#platform

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#building #cases #cross #desktop #i

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#independent #keep #language #platform #project

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators. ↗

— Bob Iger

#business #capital #capital investment #consumers #content

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform. ↗

— Marc Almond

#freedom #long #new #platform #public

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#crafted #democrats #our #partisanship #platform

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#benches #facing #hall #held #perched

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#anything #collaborate #compete #created #ever

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. ↗

— Van Morrison

#developing #me #music #musician #platform