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Open platforms encourage innovation. Whenever you have a closed platform, a monopoly on commerce, and all these platform rules, it stifles innovation.

— Tim Sweeney

“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

“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

We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that…

— Matt Mullenweg

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

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

Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security…

— Sundar Pichai

“Platforms allow participants to co-create and exchange value with each other.”

— Sangeet Paul Choudary

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

— Linus Torvalds

As the quality of our platform gets better, the developers can make more interesting experiences. As the experiences get more interesting, people enjoy them…

— David Baszucki

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

I've always worked towards creating platforms and partners along the way.

— Bhushan Kumar