Sundar Pichai Quotes

Microsoft loves Linux.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

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.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

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

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

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.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

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

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.

When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform.

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.