Diane Greene Quotes

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Microsoft loves Linux.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

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.

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.

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.

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.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.