Adopting Quote by Mark Shuttleworth

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups,…

— Tim O'Reilly

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

“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

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

— Brian Behlendorf

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

“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

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external…

— Henry Chesbrough

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

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