Open Source Quotes

62 quotes by 42 authors

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va. — Evgeny Morozov
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other… — Douglas Rushkoff
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can… — Matt Mullenweg
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius. — Golan Levin
The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing… — Vint Cerf
Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work. — Brian Behlendorf
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux. — Barton Gellman
For me, open source is a moral thing. — Matt Mullenweg
Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around… — Matt Mullenweg
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software… — Matt Mullenweg
The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. — Matt Mullenweg
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source… — Matt Mullenweg
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting… — Eric S. Raymond
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint. — Sundar Pichai
When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people… — Scott Weiss
Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. — Mitch Kapor
Making things open-source brings the cost down. — Peter Diamandis
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the… — Peter Fenton
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. — Peter Fenton
All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. — Miguel de Icaza

Who Wrote These Open Source Quotes

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