Where does the culture of open source in programming stem from?

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How/why do all the thousands of packages that are available as open source and enable basically everyone to code and make programs stay free? Everything else in the world is turned into a product to make a profit.

This is similar to the extensive resources available on the internet like StackOverflow where people literally give people answers to their problems for nothing. Like, someone could work for a company and use other peoples work and benefit from it.

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Sometimes it’s fun to see your creation get adopted by many as in the long run the iteration of your code will get better and better. Same reason with people having fun watching let’s players. Even if it’s not you playing the game it can still be entertaining just to see how far a friend or an entertainer will progress in a game

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