Open source Quote by Richard Stallman Download Open image “The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".” — Richard Stallman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Open source Source
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“thought outside the religious realm. 3. Jewish values, particularly because they are often manifest in concrete ways, are of particular interest to those in… — Kerry M. Olitzky Copy Share Image
“HPL inadvertently created an open source fantastic universe unlike any other, ultimately grounded in the modern world, but enriched by secret histories and weird… — Ross E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule. — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
“increase the ease with which innovators can build larger systems from interlinkable modules created by community participants. Free and open source software projects are… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
