Access Quote by Aaron Swartz

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source,…

— Tim Berners-Lee

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see…

— Mitch Kapor

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening…

— Alicia Garza

The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or…

— John Battelle

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of…

— Michael Shermer

I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm a fan…

— Lee Ranaldo

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students...

— Andrew Tridgell

“Yes, the success of open source does call into some question the utility of command-and-control systems, of secrecy, of centralization, and of certain kinds…

— Eric S. Raymond

Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

— Jim Allchin

“The case can be put less negatively: where network effects (positive network externalities) dominate, open source is likely to be the right thing.”

— Eric S. Raymond