Brian Behlendorf

“We need to build systems that are trustworthy, not because we trust the people who run them, but because the systems themselves are designed to be trustworthy.”

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

“When you have a distributed ledger, you have a shared source of truth that no one party can unilaterally change.”

“Decentralization isn't just a technical architecture; it's a political and social choice.”

“Blockchain technology has the potential to rewire the deep plumbing of the world’s financial systems and many other industries.”

“The goal of Hyperledger is to create a community of communities, to foster the development of open-source blockchain and smart contract technologies.”

“The real benefit of open source is not just that the source code is available. It’s that you have a community of people who are using it, who are improving it, who are helping each other.”

“The Apache Group was formed from a number of people who provided patch files that had been written to fix bugs in the NCSA server.”

“We're trying to build a new kind of digital commons.”

“For our purposes, 'collaboration' is a specific way of working together, one that requires a specific set of skills and a specific kind of mindset.”

“If you look at the top 100 traded companies, you’ll see that they all have one thing in common: They’re all using open source.”

“The most successful open source projects are not just about code, they are about building a healthy and sustainable community.”