Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

"Einstein need not wait for an apple to fall"...That is the essence of Open Source Software..

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

For me, open source is a moral thing.

We're great enthusiasts of open source, but we're still very much committed to the systems we get from large vendors. We rely on large-scale commercial vendors' applications, and we're not likely to move away from them.

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.