Quotes About Open-source

In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not to a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

there's now a new instruction set architecture called RISC-V that is open-sourced, so it's available to anyone without a fee.

For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

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

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to everyone.

With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

The combination of GNU and Linux created an operating system that has been ported to more hardware platforms, ranging from the world's ten biggest supercomputers to embedded systems in mobile phones, than any other operating system. "Linux is subversive," wrote Eric Raymond. "Who would have thought that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet

In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his "Draft Report" on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprietary approach. In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving patents than they did on research and development of new products.64

Stallman was a purist. Torvalds wasn't.

Torvalds and Eric Raymond began to use, open-source software, which emphasized the pragmatic goal of getting people to collaborate in order to create software more effectively.

Innovation is most vibrant in the realms where open-source systems compete with proprietary ones. Sometimes

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

anyone can download and use the code, and new projects migrate from the edges to the center as a

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want, and as such you end up with something that is pretty balanced across the board.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.