オープンソースをよく科学と比較する。科学はアイデアをオープンに発展させ、他人のアイデアを改良し、今日の科学の姿にした。それに対して、魔法や錬金術はオープンにすることはしなかった。

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.