"I'm intrigued by the apps.gov.gr point. Is this something they are working on, or was it presented as a future possibility or food for thought?"
- Panagiotis Astithas
"They are, in my view, a codification of a set of fundamental principles around openness. A central question is, given we have done this well and gone this far, why do we need them now? I have a few answers to this, but mostly it’s because along with our technology advances in delivering networking and network services, we’ve also improved the ability to unilaterally, and thus dangerously, control it."
- Panagiotis Astithas
"The first move we have to make is simply give up the idea that the best technology companies are created by VC money. This may be true if your goal is to create proprietary companies, but the best Free Software companies are the small ones, 5-10 employees, that do consulting work and license all their improvements back to a shared codebase."
- Panagiotis Astithas
"The trouble is, everything you type into Wave is transmitted live, in real time—every keystroke was getting sent to Zach just as I hit it. This made me too self-conscious to get my thoughts across."
- Panagiotis Astithas