Quotes About Open-source

Eric von Hippel

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

The success of trust-based peer organizations such as eBay, Wikipedia, and the open-source movement, indicates that trust is a highly expandable network property.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don't want to be locked into a single provider.

AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on. And while many of the tech giants working on AI, like Google and Facebook, have open-sourced some of their algorithms, they hold back most of their data.

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.

I've never worked with the Java community.

It essentially meant that anyone was allowed to use Linux as long as they did not sell it, and

I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

Jakubowski and his collaborators have since launched the Open Building Institute, which aims to make open-source designs for ecological, off-grid, affordable housing available to all.81 'Our goal is decentralized production,' he explains. 'I'm talking about a business case for efficient enterprise where the traditional concept of scale becomes irrelevant. Our new concept of scale is about distributing economic power far and wide.

In the Togolese capital of Lomé, architect Sénamé Agbodjinou and colleagues set up Woelab in 2012, a 'low-high tech' workshop making its own design of open-source 3D printers using the component parts of defunct computers, printers and scanners that have been dumped in West Africa.

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.

Proprietary software is an injustice.

When you contribute to an open-source or a shared solution, and there's a liability issue that arises from the use of that solution, how will this be tracked back to individual contributors?

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

If you want to get a job as a programmer at a company that makes an open-source product, then contribute pull requests. If you want to get a job in developer relations, don't just contribute pull requests: go out and talk about the product. - Ted Neward

I want to migrate us to MySQL and open-source databases wherever we can, because I'm tired of sending millions of dollars each year to an abusive vendor.

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

En 2011, algunos inversores de capital riesgo se unieron para invertir 10 millones de dólares cada uno en Kickstarter, MakerBot (una empresa de hardware de código abierto que fabrica impresoras 3-D) y Shapeways, un servicio de impresión 3-D, así como 23 millones en Quirky, otro mercado Maker[11]

1. If it's digital, sooner or later it's going to be free.

In "open-source" software, where anyone can contribute to a project, the mantra is "With enough eyes, all bugs are trivial." Likewise for astronomy: With enough eyes, we'll see the asteroid with our name on it—and early enough to do something about it.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.