The way that big software companies used to make software was hiring all the smart people, locking them in a room, and sliding pizza under the door, until they had written whatever needed writing. And then selling tickets to get into the room.

— Simon Phipps, Liberating Java (2007)

Source: http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-Liberating-Java.ogg

From his keynote at FOSDEM 2007.

Topics: software engineering, open source