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The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule. -- Philippe Kahn
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. -- Bruce Perens
What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use. -- Brian Behlendorf
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing. -- Matt Mullenweg
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless. -- Erik Naggum
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 would ask me questions about 'open source' thinking that I work under that banner. -- Richard Stallman
For me, open source is a moral thing. -- Matt Mullenweg
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. -- Linus Torvalds
Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work. -- Brian Behlendorf
Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. -- Mitch Kapor
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. -- Mitchell Baker
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. -- Linus Torvalds
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. -- Linus Torvalds
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. -- Larry Wall
When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be. -- Matt Mullenweg
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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 that get done there. -- Bill Gates
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The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source. -- Vint Cerf
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. -- Matt Mullenweg
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 can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. -- Matt Mullenweg
EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX. -- Anant Agarwal
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 it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony. -- Matt Mullenweg
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
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 other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. -- Douglas Rushkoff
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach. -- Linus Torvalds
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. -- Linus Torvalds
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on. -- Matt Mullenweg
Open-source is a means of production. -- Bruce Sterling
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. -- Winston Damarillo
The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source". -- Richard Stallman
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. -- Richard Stallman
Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. -- Larry Ellison
I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source. -- Nicholas Sparks
Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source. -- Craig Mundie
I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows. -- Steve Ballmer
If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source. -- Peter Fenton
My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software. -- Matt Mullenweg
I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students... -- Andrew Tridgell
In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process. -- Brian Behlendorf
In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process. -- Brian Behlendorf
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. -- Jimmy Wales
Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women. -- Jane Silber
The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. -- Mitchell Baker
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. -- Jon Lech Johansen
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. -- Jon Lech Johansen
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux. -- Barton Gellman
The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source. -- Alex Grey
Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va. -- Evgeny Morozov
The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there. -- Matt Mullenweg
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. -- Henry Miller
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. -- Peter Fenton
Once you open your heart, you will start to absorb many things that come from the source - from Tao itself. -- Henry Chang
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
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
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...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source. -- Huston Smith
You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out. -- Jamie Zawinski
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia. -- Evgeny Morozov
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
Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint. -- Sundar Pichai
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community. -- Matt Mullenweg
It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation. -- Linus Torvalds
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. -- Benjamin Franklin
I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life. -- Chris Jordan
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. -- Sivananda
Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks. -- Mitchell Baker
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 no time hanging around the water cooler. -- Margaret Heffernan
Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it. -- Linus Torvalds
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed. -- Peter Fenton
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 nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them. -- Howard Rheingold
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope. -- Gabe Newell
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with. -- Mitchell Baker

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