Peter Fenton Quotes

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

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

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

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'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.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Microsoft loves Linux.

You always want to contribute wherever you are.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

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.