Open Source Quotes

“Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.”

“Mozilla is a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.”

“Firefox is not just a piece of software. It’s part of a global movement to keep the Internet open and accessible to all.”

“We are not a democracy. We are a meritocracy.”

“We are a bunch of volunteers, and we write what we want.”

“The biggest challenge for open source is not the code, it is the user experience.”

“Patches are welcome, but they better be good.”

“I'm a lazy person, which is why I like open source. You get a lot of people to do your work for you.”

“I think open source is a lifestyle.”

“The beauty of open source is that it's not just about the code, it's about the community that builds around it.”

“The Open Source Definition is the constitution of Open Source.”

“An open platform is a system that is extensible by outside developers.”

“I think our code audit process is our most important contribution to the free software world.”

“Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.”

“What Mono brings to the table is a first-class, open-source, and cross-platform implementation of .NET.”

“My software is in the public domain. You can do whatever you want with it.”

“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.”

“The real benefit of open source is not just that the source code is available. It’s that you have a community of people who are using it, who are improving it, who are helping each other.”

“The best things in life are done by volunteers.”

“We are not communists, we are capitalists. We are expecting to benefit from our open-source work.”