Able Quote by Matt Mullenweg

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

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people…

— Richard Stallman

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things…

— Bill Gates

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

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

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 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

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

It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open…

— Matt Mullenweg

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

— 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