Open source Quotes
- FLOSS potentially saves industry over 36% in software R&D investment that can result in increased profits or be more usefully spent in further innovation. - View Quote Details on FLOSS potentially saves industry over 36% in software R&D investment…
- Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did. - View Quote Details on Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever…
- I bumped into him (Craig Mundie of Microsoft) in an elevator. I looked at his badge and said, “ah, you work for Microsoft.” He looked back at me and said, “Oh ya, and what do you do?” And I thought it was some kind of tad dismissive, here is a guy in a suit looking at a scruffy hacker… so I gave him a thousand yard stare and said, “I am your worst nightmare!” - View Quote Details on I bumped into him (Craig Mundie of Microsoft) in an…
- The legal system doesn’t work. Or more accurately, it doesn’t work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don’t think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done. - View Quote Details on The legal system doesn’t work. Or more accurately, it doesn’t…
- Let’s put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is “right” or not, you are morally corrupt. Let’s not go there. We don’t base our morality on law. - View Quote Details on Let’s put it this way: if you need to ask…
- Recent case studies (the Internet) provide very dramatic evidence… that commercial quality can be achieved / exceeded by OSS projects. - View Quote Details on Recent case studies (the Internet) provide very dramatic evidence… that…
- Intellectual property (IP) socialism is the worst that can happen to any IP-based society… and we are an IP-based society. If there is no way to protect IP, there is no reason to invest in IP. - View Quote Details on Intellectual property (IP) socialism is the worst that can happen…
- Protecting essential freedoms is always a matter of restricting the actions that would deny them. - View Quote Details on Protecting essential freedoms is always a matter of restricting the…
- Firms have invested an estimated Euro 1.2 billion in developing FLOSS software that is made freely available. Such firms represent in total at least 565 000 jobs and Euro 263 billion in annual revenue. Contributing firms are from several non-IT (but often ICT intensive) sectors, and tend to have much higher revenues than non-contributing firms. - View Quote Details on Firms have invested an estimated Euro 1.2 billion in developing…
- … there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with… nobody can ever improve the software. - View Quote Details on … there is this thing called the GPL, which we…
- Open-source development violates almost all known management theories. - View Quote Details on Open-source development violates almost all known management theories.
- Free as in freedom, not beer. - View Quote Details on Free as in freedom, not beer.
- [open source software] is long-term credible… FUD tactics can not [sic ] be used to combat it. - View Quote Details on [open source software] is long-term credible… FUD tactics can not…
- Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you’ll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly immediate need, it’s almost certainly over-designed. And don’t expect people to jump in and help you. That’s not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say “hey, that _almost_ works for me”, and they’ll get involved in the project. - View Quote Details on Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start…
- This existing base of FLOSS software represents a lower bound of about 131 000 real person-years of effort that has been devoted exclusively by programmers. As this is mostly by individuals not directly paid for development, it represents a significant gap in national accounts of productivity. Annualised and adjusted for growth this represents at least Euro 800 million in voluntary contribution from programmers alone each year, of which nearly half are based in Europe. - View Quote Details on This existing base of FLOSS software represents a lower bound…
- “Do you understand the GPL?” And they’ll say, “Huh?” And they’re pretty stunned when the Pac-Man-like nature of it is described to them. […] There is a part of open source called GPL [that] makes it impossible for a commercial company to use any of that work or build on any of that work. So what you saw with TCP/IP or (e-mail technology) Sendmail or the browser could never happen. - View Quote Details on “Do you understand the GPL?” And they’ll say, “Huh?” And…
- [W]e have a problem… when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That’s the way that the license works. - View Quote Details on [W]e have a problem… when the government funds open-source work…
- Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software. - View Quote Details on Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other…
- There is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops software for charity. For innovation to continue, there needs to be value - and even open-source applications have some form of market model, which incentivises them to continue innovating. - View Quote Details on There is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops…
- The Many Minds Principle: the coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else. - View Quote Details on The Many Minds Principle: the coolest thing to do with…
- You may not like the fact that some information must be licensed, but that’s how it is. Those who want information to be free as a matter of principle should create some information and make it free. - View Quote Details on You may not like the fact that some information must…
- I assert that open source software—available widely through the Internet—has the potential to provide our nation’s enemies or potential enemies with computing capabilities that are restricted by US law. - View Quote Details on I assert that open source software—available widely through the Internet—has…
- Talk is cheap. Show me the code. - View Quote Details on Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
- For example, the GPLv2 in no way limits your use of the software. If you’re a mad scientist, you can use GPLv2′d software for your evil plans to take over the world (”Sharks with lasers on their heads!!”), and the GPLv2 just says that you have to give source code back. And that’s OK by me. I like sharks with lasers. I just want the mad scientists of the world to pay me back in kind. I made source code available to them, they have to make their changes to it available to me. After that, they can fry me with their shark-mounted lasers all they want. - View Quote Details on For example, the GPLv2 in no way limits your use…
- The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says “no” to some of the things that people sometimes want to do. There are users who say that this is a bad thing–that the GPL “excludes” some proprietary software developers who “need to be brought into the free software community.”
But we are not excluding them from our community; they are choosing not to enter. Their decision to make software proprietary is a decision to stay out of our community. Being in our community means joining in cooperation with us; we cannot “bring them into our community” if they don’t want to join.
What we can do is offer them an inducement to join. The GNU GPL is designed to make an inducement from our existing software: “If you will make your software free, you can use this code.” Of course, it won’t win ‘em all, but it wins some of the time. - View Quote Details on The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says…
About Open source
Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s source materials—typically, their source code allowing users to create user-generated software content.
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