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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.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

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

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

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

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.

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.

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.

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.