“Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.”— Eric S. Raymond
“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.”— Eric S. Raymond
“What Mono brings to the table is a first-class, open-source, and cross-platform implementation of .NET.”— Miguel de Icaza
“The biggest challenge for open source is not the code, it is the user experience.”— Miguel de Icaza
“Most of the tools I've developed have been for my own use. I've been sharing them because I have a community spirit.”— Jon Lech Johansen
“We are not communists, we are capitalists. We are expecting to benefit from our open-source work.”— Bruce Perens
“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.”— Bruce Perens
“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.”— Linus Torvalds
“I'm a lazy person, which is why I like open source. You get a lot of people to do your work for you.”— Linus Torvalds
“Mozilla is a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.”— Mitchell Baker
“Firefox is not just a piece of software. It’s part of a global movement to keep the Internet open and accessible to all.”— Mitchell Baker
“The Apache Group was formed from a number of people who provided patch files that had been written to fix bugs in the NCSA server.”— Brian Behlendorf