Eric S. Raymond Quotes

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

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.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

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

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

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

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

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

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

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

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.

I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

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 have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.

Open-source is a means of production.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.