Body Quote by Bruce Perens

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

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

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

— Larry Ellison

“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

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

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

Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and…

— Brian Behlendorf

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have…

— Matt Mullenweg

“The success of these projects and others like them is thanks to developers. The millions of programmers across the world who use, develop, improve,…

— Stephen O’Grady

I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only…

— Brian Behlendorf

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