Open Source Quotes
62 quotes by 42 authors
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Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students...
— Andrew Tridgell
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If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I…
— Edward Snowden
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I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.
— Steve Ballmer
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
— Larry Wall
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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.
— Matt Mullenweg
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One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a…
— Matt Mullenweg
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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
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Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time…
— Erik Naggum
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Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
— Richard Stallman
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One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red Hat…
— Linus Torvalds
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It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public…
— Linus Torvalds
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We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
— Mitchell Baker
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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
— Linus Torvalds
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In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
— Linus Torvalds
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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. And…
— James Gosling
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The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states…
— Bill Joy
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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
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If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the…
— Mark Hall
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The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their…
— Dan Geer
Who Wrote These Open Source Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 62 Open Source Quotes, led by these top contributors: