[ Thanks to Rajiv
for this link. ]
“Where open source is concerned, no hyperbole seems too hyper.
The distribution of Linux source code by Linus Torvalds, in
1991, has been compared to Martin Luther’s translating the Bible
into the vernacular. Larry Wall, the inventor of Perl,
declares that open source programming is the expression in software
of a fundamental Christian message: creation is not fixed in
advance; free will is included and collaboration is encouraged.
Even the Chinese Communist Party smiles on open source.”