Banned Quote by Anonymous

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

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

— Larry Ellison

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

— Francis Crick

I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why…

— Brian Behlendorf

“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

You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries.…

— James Gosling

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend…

— Matt Mullenweg

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

— Brian Behlendorf

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

— Peter Diamandis

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things…

— Bill Gates

“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

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

— Anonymous