First time Quote by Olaf Carlson-Wee

In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products, services, and…

— Meltem Demirors

Application-specific tokens, or app-tokens, are built on top of existing general-purpose blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. For the first time, open-source project creators can…

— Olaf Carlson-Wee

“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

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

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

“Today, an open source software development project is typically initiated by an individual or a small group seeking a solution to an individual's or…

— Eric von Hippel

“In a future that includes competition from open source, we can expect that the eventual destiny of any software technology will be to either…

— Eric S. Raymond

For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world…

— Olaf Carlson-Wee

If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you…

— Rasmus Lerdorf

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling