Brian Behlendorf

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained. ”

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

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. ”

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