Code Quote by Eben Moglen

'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.

— Erik Naggum

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an…

— Richard Stallman

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in…

— John Carmack

When we're building tools, we respect developers' complete creative freedom. It can be used for the development for anything that's legal.

— Tim Sweeney

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would…

— Patrick Leahy

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on…

— Richard Stallman

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

— Linus Torvalds

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

— Larry Constantine

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software…

— Richard Stallman

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

— Ken Thompson

For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.

— Peter Sunde

“In fact, sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren’t easily shared,”

— Austin Kleon