Business Quote by Matt Mullenweg

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

“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

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing…

— Bruce Perens

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

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 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

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have…

— Matt Mullenweg

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

— Larry Ellison

“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

Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and…

— Brian Behlendorf

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

— Jim Whitehurst