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To add to this, open sourcing your code also provides a bit of insurance policy if your company ever goes out of business. This is especially helpful in infrast
by chatmasta 9y ago
To add to this, open sourcing your code also provides a bit of insurance policy if your company ever goes out of business. This is especially helpful in infrastructure markets; businesses don’t want to build their foundation around proprietary dependencies that might disappear when their creator company goes belly-up. If the code is open sourced, then even in the event of you going out of business, your customers can find a way to recover.
There is also the nice bonus that open sourcing your code means you’ll get a bunch of “free” contributions, bug fixes and security reviews.