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

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

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.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

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.

I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.

We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony.

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

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.

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.