The author makes some good points but fails to acknowledge the most powerful aspect of open-source, it’s open-source! He describes open-source as if it is a se

The author makes some good points but fails to acknowledge the most powerful aspect of open-source, it’s open-source! He describes open-source as if it is a service being provided by the developers maintaining it rather than a tool anyone can adjust. Obviously good maintainers really help a project flourish but even more advantageous is the ability for anyone to fix bugs in the source code and use the fix immediately. I don’t have to wait for someone to fix something or the next release, I can just do it without having to build it from the whole thing from scratch or switch providers.