Open Source Quotes

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Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

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.

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

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.

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.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

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.

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

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.

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.

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

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.

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.

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.

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

Open-source is a means of production.

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

Mathematics is Open Source.

I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched.