open source

• Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

  — Linus Torvalds

• I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

  — Linus Torvalds

• The explanation for "free software" is simple — a person who has grasped the idea of "free speech, not free beer" will not get it wrong again.

  — Richard Stallman

• Open source is free like a puppy is free.

  — Scott McNealy

• Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

  — Eric Schmidt

• If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

  — Bill Gates

• [open source software] is long-term credible … FUD tactics can not [sic] be used to combat it.

  — Vinod Valloppillil

• Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.

  — Theo de Raadt

• It's the little things that make Freedom become Not Freedom.

  — Theo de Raadt

• You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

  — Jamie Zawinski

• Just dumping the code on GitHub is not open source. Open source is a culture. Open source means that your issues are not all one year old stale issues. Open source means developing in public.

  — George Hotz

• Everything was small... and my heart sinks for Linux when I see the size of it.

  — Douglas McIlroy

• Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

  — Ward Cunningham

• If ordinary people can really figure out how to set the alarm at a hotel, then we are going to make OpenOffice default to vi keybindings in the next Novell Linux Desktop.

  — Nat Friedman

• GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution.

  — Richard Stallman

• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

  — Eric S. Raymond

• I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

  — Linus Torvalds

• Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

  — Linus Torvalds

• It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

  — Bill Gates

• Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.

  — Linus Torvalds