“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.” DoneChallengesSourceProjectsAlternativesConsumersUsersUser ExperienceOpen SourceWordpress Author:Matt Mullenweg
“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.” IfsThinkingWorldWayTryingKindGoalDecisionRichProductsSourceMarketingStrikesCapitalistUsersModestVentureOpen SourceVenture Capitalists Author:Blake Ross
“The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.” GivingArtMadeDoneEarthNamesWorkMaterialsSourceHonorConnectionsUsersGood Work Book:Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
“Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.” SourceProgramCodeFeaturesSoftwareUsersMalicious Author:Richard Stallman
“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.” PainGoalCompanyProductsSourceHabitCreatingUltimateSolveReliefAssociationUsersUltimate Goal Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.” YearsDifferentReasonProblemBodyPastMillionsGoneSourceSolveReachingNo ReasonSoftwareUsersSlow DownIndicationRobustOpen Source Author:Bruce Perens