Open source Quote by Eric S. Raymond

“In a future that includes competition from open source, we can expect that the eventual destiny of any software technology will be to either…

— Eric S. Raymond

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

“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

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing…

— Bruce Perens

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

— Larry Ellison

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things…

— Bill Gates

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend…

— Matt Mullenweg

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…

— Richard Stallman

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.…

— James Gosling

I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only…

— Brian Behlendorf

I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

— Steve Ballmer

“For purposes of examining the software market itself, it will be helpful to sort kinds of software by how completely the service they offer…

— Eric S. Raymond