Community Quote by Linus Torvalds

Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but…

— Linus Torvalds

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

— Bill Gates

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

— Darl McBride

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

— Richard Stallman

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

— Linus Torvalds

I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the…

— Linus Torvalds

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing…

— Dennis Ritchie

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

— Theo de Raadt

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

— 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

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

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

— Linus Torvalds