Open Source Quotes

“We are a bunch of volunteers, and we write what we want.”

“I think our code audit process is our most important contribution to the free software world.”

“Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.”

“Mozilla is a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.”

“I think open source is a lifestyle.”

“An open platform is a system that is extensible by outside developers.”

“Patches are welcome, but they better be good.”

“You are not a true hacker until you have written a major open-source program that has been used and appreciated by many other people.”

“I'm a lazy person, which is why I like open source. You get a lot of people to do your work for you.”

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

“My software is in the public domain. You can do whatever you want with it.”

“The beauty of open source is that it's not just about the code, it's about the community that builds around it.”

“The Open Source Definition is the constitution of Open Source.”

“We are not a democracy. We are a meritocracy.”

“Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.”

“What Mono brings to the table is a first-class, open-source, and cross-platform implementation of .NET.”

“The biggest challenge for open source is not the code, it is the user experience.”

“We are not communists, we are capitalists. We are expecting to benefit from our open-source work.”

“The first thing that the business people have to do is to change their perspective on Open Source. Open Source is not a business model.”

“The 'theory' of open source is that you have a lot of people looking at the code, and as a result, bugs get found and fixed faster.”