Able Quote by Eric S. Raymond

The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether…

— Craig Mundie

“central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.”

— Steven Levy

That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money…

— Jeff Moss

Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable…

— Steve Wozniak

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

— Heather Brooke

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If…

— Kevin Mitnick

“The success of these projects and others like them is thanks to developers. The millions of programmers across the world who use, develop, improve,…

— Stephen O’Grady

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect…

— Jaron Lanier

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and…

— Kevin Mitnick

In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for intellectual property.…

— Franklin Foer

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

— Peter Diamandis

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of…

— CJS Hayward