“The case can be put less negatively: where network effects (positive network externalities) dominate, open source is likely to be the right… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming.… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the… — Jim Allchin Copy Share Image
“In a future that includes competition from open source, we can expect that the eventual destiny of any software technology will be… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from… — Sundar Pichai Copy Share Image
“The ascendance of open source is not altruistic; it’s simply good business for contributors and consumers alike. But the reason it’s good… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision. — Erik Voorhees Copy Share Image
I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the… — Blake Ross Copy Share Image
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“Spread the word. Spread the technology. Spread awareness of how it works. Put your grandfather up on a secure network service of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products,… — Meltem Demirors Copy Share Image
When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source?… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
Users and entrepreneurs building new business models off the blockchain means that there are competing interests on how best to scale the… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out. — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
With TensorFlow, when we started to develop it, we kind of looked at ourselves and said: 'Hey, maybe we should open source… — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs.… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Part of the answer certainly lies in the fact that using software does not decrease its value. Indeed, widespread use of open-source… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can… — Dan Geer Copy Share Image
History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“Yes, the success of open source does call into some question the utility of command-and-control systems, of secrecy, of centralization, and of… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
