Why is Open Source important? And is it free?

[giscus[bot]]

Why is Open Source important? And is it free?

As I am an open source maintainer myself, I want to highlight my personal thoughts on why open source is important. I will put a bit more focus on the .NET side of things, but most of the thoughts are "valid" in the broader open source world.

https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/591f2354-a205-4507-bbb2-7d88781e0563

[kapsiR]

Really good article! Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 👍

One small typo (Didn't find the content on GitHub, otherwise I'd have submitted a PR 😉):

The main work is done by a handful of maintainers without no financial support.

[linkdotnet]

Oh boy - thanks! Directly fixed that mistake.

otherwise I'd have submitted a PR

That is very lovely. While the source code of the blog is publically available, the content isn't :D So I have to do that "alone" :D