Because Quote by Justin Rosenstein

Proprietary software is an injustice.

— Richard Stallman

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify…

— Boris Beizer

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like…

— Tim O'Reilly

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

— Linus Torvalds

“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

“Since most software industries have relatively low barriers to entry—especially today, when startup costs are lower than ever—it’s practically guaranteed that a competitor will…

— Alex Moazed

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

— Roy Romer

I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an…

— Steve Blank

Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to…

— Drew Houston

I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were building a…

— Brad Stone

“In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.”

— Andrew S. Grove