I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.

— Linus Torvalds, Message to Linux kernel mailing list (2007)

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/29b45885cc7b11b3

A 2007 message to the Linux kernel mailing list.

Topics: open source