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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software. -- Matt Mullenweg
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
I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic. -- Brian Behlendorf
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. -- Jimmy Wales
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. -- Linus Torvalds
Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va. -- Evgeny Morozov
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. -- Peter Fenton
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
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
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
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
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
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
We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing. -- Mitchell Baker
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
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, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.' -- Richard Stallman
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary. -- Jimmy Wales
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
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands. -- Matt Mullenweg
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. -- Richard Stallman
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

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