Company Quote by Linus Torvalds

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

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this…

— Matt Mullenweg

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see…

— Mitch Kapor

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

— Brian Behlendorf

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

“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 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

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you…

— Tim Berners-Lee

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

— Linus Torvalds

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

— Richard Stallman

“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