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Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-Lee
Property
Legal
Face
Important
Ownership
Society
Complex
Open
Open Source
Issue
Issues
Private
Source
Cultural
Private Ownership
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Whole
Here
The thing I think is often misunderstood about Ripple is people say, 'Oh, Ripple is a centralized platform.' To me, this is a legacy perspective. Ripple's technology, IRP, is open source; XRP Ledger is open source.
Brad Garlinghouse
Me
Technology
Ripple
People
Perspective
Think
Say
People Say
About
Open
Open Source
Misunderstood
Source
Legacy
Often
Oh
Centralized
Platform
Thing
In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
Brian Behlendorf
Way
Visibility
Through
Open
True
Open Source
Development
Source
Lots
Process
What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
Brian Behlendorf
Possible
Open
Open Source
Implementation
Gotten
Been
Source
Being
Java
Really
Use
Used
Being Used
Widely
Widespread
Kept
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.
Brian Behlendorf
Will
Before
Closed
Sit
Faster
Project
Say
Open
Open Source
Came
Source
Lot
Than
Reasons
Whole
Why
Things
Here
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
Will
Example
Software
Immediately
Pretty
Web
Only
Vast
Vast Majority
Open
Open Source
Generic
Particular
For Example
Majority
Opinion
Source
Fits
Person
Site
Behind
Certain
Interface
Useful
User
Company
Niche
Actually
Users and entrepreneurs building new business models off the blockchain means that there are competing interests on how best to scale the network. Linux, also an open source software project, had similar growing pains.
Brock Pierce
Best
Business
Building
Blockchain
Software
Project
Scale
Similar
Network
Entrepreneurs
Open
Had
Open Source
New
New Business
Also
How
Source
Off
Linux
Models
Interests
Means
Pains
Users
Growing
Competing
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
Bruce Perens
Walk
Filtered
Marketing
Paradigm
Open
Open Source
Drunkard
Source
Process
Strategic
I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.
Curt Weldon
Worry
Out
Would
Brought
About
Classification
Classified
Classified Information
No Reason
Attempt
Never
Open
Simply
Open Source
Cover
Source
Bureaucrats
Ends
Information
Public
Rear
Reason
Jeopardize
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.
Eric S. Raymond
You
Culture
Yourself
People
Others
Distinction
Drawing
Status
Kinds
Open
Attention
Open Source
Study
Between
Over
Make
Source
Cultural
Dominance
Interactions
Gain
Who
Asserting
Societies
Two
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
Golan Levin
Genius
Free
Solitary
Open
Sharing
Open Source
Source
Notion
Teaching
Incompatible
I am greatly proud of the fact that 'Doom' is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had 'Doom' run on it, and I think that's been one of the great aspects of having it be open source: having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date.
John Carmack
Great
People
Think
Everything
Those
Out
Run
Having
Date
Fact
Open
Had
Open Source
Maintained
Proud
Am
Been
Source
Up
Greatly
Up-To-Date
Doom
Where
Means
Aspects
Things
Kept
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
Linus Torvalds
Today
You
Science
People
Other
Incredible
Took
Something
Open
Had
Advances
Developing
Open Source
Ideas
Openness
Witchcraft
Making
Source
Improving
Often
Where
Notion
Whole
Compare
Alchemy
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
Linus Torvalds
People
Free
Before
Changed
Software
Took
Approach
Projects
Visible
Ways
More
Both
Area
Free Software
Open
Open Source
Looked
Practical
Ideological
Because
How
Were
Source
Linux
Bigger
Many
Technical
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
Matt Mullenweg
Money
Free
Everybody
Software
More
Invest
Open
Open Source
Sing
Make
Makes
Source
Services
Belongs
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.
Matt Mullenweg
Service
Freedom
You
Own
Software
Out
Kind
Run
Pretty
Web
Data
Only
Gives
Host
Open
Instance
Open Source
Source
Hands
Any
Package
Much
Really
Your
Export
Lets
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.
Matt Mullenweg
Great
Free
Community
Living
Software
Harmony
Possible
Has-Been
Able
Entity
Free Software
Open
Open Source
Been
Source
Commercial
Done
Experiences
Create
Successful
Working
User
Things
Wider
Two
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
You
Experience
Better
Challenge
Market
Projects
Par
Consumer
Open
Proprietary
Open Source
Like
Alternatives
Source
Than
Done
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Create
User
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
Great
You
Design
Mark
Benevolent
Web
Main
Open
Open Source
Development
Like
Doing
Source
Dictator
Model
Committee
Which
Apache
Then
Things
Two
Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.
Matt Mullenweg
Education
Me
Business
Photography
First
Community
Philip
Gave
Back
Embraced
Impact
Online
Inspired
Through
Open
Had
He
Knew
Open Source
Around
First-Person
Real
Source
Huge
Huge Impact
Person
Created
Explore
Communities
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
Matt Mullenweg
You
Think
Wikipedia
Something
Small
Bubble
Open
Open Source
Ideas
Source
Lots
Lots And Lots
Encyclopedia
Up
Get
Contributions
Information
Meaningful
Applied
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
You
Back
See
Web
Open
Part
Open Source
Invisible
Source
Accomplishment
End
User
The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.
Mitch Kapor
Other
Those
Out
Web
Main
Open
Open Source
Python
Know
Perl
Built
Source
Any
Dependent
Whether
Which
Infrastructure
Languages
Applications
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.
Mitchell Baker
World
Important
Few
Live
Pretty
Restriction
Consumer
Open
Unsettled
Open Source
Feel
Trademark
Source
Question
Product
Who
Groups
The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us.
Mitchell Baker
Important
Licence
Open
Part
Open Source
Name
Source
Us
Why
For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
Time
First
Project
Open
Developers
Open Source
First Time
Protocol
Source
Level
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