Words matter. These are the best Open Source Quotes from famous people such as Margaret Heffernan, John Carmack, Eric S. Raymond, Mitchell Baker, Tim Berners-Lee, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 am greatly proud of the fact that ‘Doom’ is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had ‘Doom’ run on it, and I think that’s been one of the great aspects of having it be open source: having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we’ve known them.
Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
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.
When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email – former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it’s a restriction they can’t live with.
What is al Qaeda? It’s an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
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 biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.
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.
Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.
If you want to build an open source project, you can’t let your ego stand in the way. You can’t rewrite everybody’s patches, you can’t second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.
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.
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They’re playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They’re just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It’s an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
With TensorFlow, when we started to develop it, we kind of looked at ourselves and said: ‘Hey, maybe we should open source this.’
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what’s happening on the free Internet is more akin to the ‘crowdsourcing’ of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them – only the search engines that parse their articles.
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.
In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products, services, and early users.