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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
“With the cost of development down by an order of magnitude or more, the throttle on developer creativity has been removed, setting… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“Gradient Softech is a Computer and Internet based Electronic Company with a team of highly qualified professionals and has been working since… — Gradient Softech Copy Share Image
One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. — Winston Damarillo Copy Share Image
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. — Mitchell Baker 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
“Hazelcast is an Open Source clustering and highly scalable data distribution plat- form for the JVM.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
