29 Quotes by Brian Behlendorf

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.

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.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

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.

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.