Though there is indeed much more software open source lately, I feel that is mostly a consequence of the free and easy availability of open source hosting. I s

Though there is indeed much more software open source lately, I feel that is mostly a consequence of the free and easy availability of open source hosting. I still remember the old days where most opensource projects were doing self-hosting or using sourceforge. Self-hosting is something that most developers that just want to build something nice won't consider. And using sourceforge back then was also atrocious (they didn't exactly have an easy to use UI, if I remember correctly). This makes me think that what contributed the most to there being so much open source, is the easyness of creating your own repository on GitHub. With just a few clicks you have one.