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Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them.

— Howard Rheingold

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Bill Gates

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.

— Matt Mullenweg

I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.

— Brian Behlendorf

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.

— Matt Mullenweg

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

— Brian Behlendorf

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.

— Mitch Kapor

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

— Matt Mullenweg

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

— Jimmy Wales

Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.

— Brian Behlendorf

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

— Linus Torvalds

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