Cases Quote by Mitchell Baker

Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership,…

— Mitchell Baker

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

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

— Richard Stallman

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

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

Openness means being able to listen to others ideas along with own views, even if they do not conform to the usual way of…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

— Allan Bloom

“Yes, the success of open source does call into some question the utility of command-and-control systems, of secrecy, of centralization, and of certain kinds…

— Eric S. Raymond

Open-mindedness provides a platform on which you can build, piling one idea on top of another.

— Senoraroy

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas,…

— Richard Stallman

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

— Brian Behlendorf

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