The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The…

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near…

— Peter Fenton

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

— Craig Mundie

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups,…

— Tim O'Reilly

There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills…

— Mark Shuttleworth

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

— Linus Torvalds

“thought outside the religious realm. 3. Jewish values, particularly because they are often manifest in concrete ways, are of particular interest to those in…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

“HPL inadvertently created an open source fantastic universe unlike any other, ultimately grounded in the modern world, but enriched by secret histories and weird…

— Ross E. Lockhart

“increase the ease with which innovators can build larger systems from interlinkable modules created by community participants. Free and open source software projects are…

— Eric von Hippel

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent…

— Margaret Heffernan

“The reason this is a serious issue is that both the pool of users and the pool of talent available to be recruited into…

— Eric S. Raymond

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

— Eric S. Raymond

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

— Jim Whitehurst

I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things…

— James Gosling

“In a future that includes competition from open source, we can expect that the eventual destiny of any software technology will be to either…

— Eric S. Raymond

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

— Jimmy Wales