Free And Open Source Software Quotes

“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.”

— Bill Gates

“One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.”

— Jimmy Wales

“Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'”

— Richard Stallman

“There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.”

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Evgeny Morozov

“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.”

— Matt Mullenweg

“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.”

— Matt Mullenweg

“Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.”

— Richard Stallman

“Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.”

— Erik Naggum

“While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.”

— Evgeny Morozov

“I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about 'open source' thinking that I work under that banner.”

— Richard Stallman