Open source for me personally and my company was more of a marketing advantage. We work in fintech and the culture there is that the code will always be closed

Open source for me personally and my company was more of a marketing advantage. We work in fintech and the culture there is that the code will always be closed source (like there’s no way it can be remotely open!). When we (the engineers) suggested that we should open source our whole system (make the whole development open source), the marketing team were so pissed and they just couldn’t imagine what benefits an open source will offer. A few months later, our project is well known by major banks here and it became clear that my startup excels in software. The first thing we say when discussing with a client our offer is that the whole system is free and open source and they can copy-paste it without our help. And that turned out to be very great as many of our customers had vendor-locks before. The thing I’m actively developing our core business in Github and quite happy with its evolution. It received a small amount of stars (like 9 or something), but I really didn’t expect any stars nor direct users contribution anyway. And it helped us a lot in building our reputation as a FOSS startup and it will also contribute to my teams resume.