Open Source Software Quotes

• 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

  Sleep, Insomnia, Ethical

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• A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Mind, Making Money

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

  Evgeny Morozov

  Doors, Secret, Unlikely

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• My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Running, Dream, Majority

  "Big Omaha 2010". Conference Interview, May 2010.

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• You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.

  James Gosling

  People, Use, World

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