Open Source Quotes

62 quotes by 42 authors

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of… — Gabe Newell
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. — Winston Damarillo
I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was… — Robert David Steele
I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would… — Richard Stallman
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to… — Matt Mullenweg
Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base… — Mitchell Baker
We werenâ€™t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. Itâ€™s open source and itâ€™s free. We werenâ€™t trying to take over the world; we had… — Blake Ross
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world… — Jimmy Wales
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. — Jon Lech Johansen
It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material. — Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or… — Kevin Carson
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. — Thomas Friedman
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and… — Tim Berners-Lee
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not… — Tim O'Reilly
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples'… — Linus Torvalds
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of… — Linus Torvalds
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. — Jimmy Wales
I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry… — Curt Weldon
Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no… — Margaret Heffernan

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