Open Source Quotes

“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.”

“The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.”

“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.”

“The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.”

“If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.”

“I want to put culture on a track so that it becomes more inclusive, more open source.”

“For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.”

“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?”

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

“The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.”

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

“I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.”

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

“You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It's crazy.”

“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.”

“Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.”

“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.”

“What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.”

“The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched.”

“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.”