Community-Driven Development Quotes

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all different people, with different ideas.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level; some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

The knowledge that all the games are created by the community, it gives the opportunity to try exploratory gaming concepts. Our developers take larger risks in what they make.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.