Quotes About Open source

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.'

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

One of the less publicized benefits of the open source movement is that it has made it easier to learn to program.

The open source community is an example of the evolutionary processes we have been describing. The rules of the community establish a framework for competition, but do not specify or plan that software will result.

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.

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.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?

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.

Wikipedia represents the most powerful new business model of the twenty-first century: open source.

ultimately, open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation

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.

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.

While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.

absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!

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.