Open source Quote by Eric S. Raymond

“The ascendance of open source is not altruistic; it’s simply good business for contributors and consumers alike. But the reason it’s good business is…

— Stephen O’Grady

“Yes, the success of open source does call into some question the utility of command-and-control systems, of secrecy, of centralization, and of certain kinds…

— Eric S. Raymond

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest…

— Linus Torvalds

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

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

— Peter Diamandis

I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things…

— James Gosling

“An almost equally important payoff of open source is its utility as a way to propagate open standards and build markets around them. The…

— Eric S. Raymond

In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products, services, and…

— Meltem Demirors

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

The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.

— Philippe Kahn

For me, open source is a moral thing.

— Matt Mullenweg

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling