Open Source Quotes

62 quotes by 42 authors

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
I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students... — Andrew Tridgell
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
I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows. — Steve Ballmer
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
My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software. — Matt Mullenweg
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
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
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
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. — Richard Stallman
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
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
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. — Mitchell Baker
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. — Linus Torvalds
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. — Linus Torvalds
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
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
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
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
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

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