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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It is also worth pointing out that a number of companies rethought their approach to software development when they realized that open source was better and more secure than what they were able to produce “in house”. I believe this also helped to spur further growth in OSS.
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