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Here are the main reasons to make open source software:

To provide something for free, public use

To get the world to help you maintain your software

A reason to not make open source software:

You want the exclusive right to offer that software as part of a paid service

This is not the first instance of a company not understanding the last point there, and it won't be the last.




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