Answers Quote by James Surowiecki

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

— Linus Torvalds

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own…

— Linus Torvalds

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can…

— Steve Wozniak

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the…

— Jay Samit

“Surowiecki outlined four conditions that characterized wise crowds: 1. Diversity of opinion 2. Independence 3. Decentralization 4. An aggregation mechanism”

— Rich Jolly

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

— Steve Wozniak

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never…

— Linus Torvalds

“The core idea behind the wisdom of crowds effect is that diverse knowledge and expertise is being collected and aggregated. Essentially, it argues that…

— Rich Jolly

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral…

— Linus Torvalds

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

— Linus Torvalds