Elsewhere Quote by Jimmy Wales

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

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

— Peter Diamandis

One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I…

— Linus Torvalds

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

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

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 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

One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera and Red…

— Linus Torvalds

Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm…

— Howard Rheingold

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

“So if open source is cannibalizing the commercial software markets, it’s all smooth sailing for those who commercialize open source, right? Well, not exactly.…

— Stephen O’Grady

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