**A philosophical approach to collaborative coding** Open source is literally _open source code_. You can see the underlying code that makes the thing go. Almost always that's stored in [[Git]]Hub nowadays. Open Source products remove some of the risk inherent in putting things that are important to you into someone else's app. There's less of a risk of malicious code, and less risk of the developers deciding they want to shut their doors and you're left with files that cannot be opened. Some of my favorite products are open-source. Some, like [[Obsidian]] here, are not. ☹️ Open Source does not necessarily mean "do whatever you want". There are a number of different licenses with various restrictions such as the [[MIT License]] or Apache licenses. Some open source projects are "open source, closed contribution", such as [[SQLite]]. Open Source doesn't always mean _code_, either. Works of art, books, recipes, and all sorts of other things are philosophically "open source" (although in many cases this actually just amounts to being [[Public Domain]]). According to Daniel Pink: Open Source may not be _profit maximizing_ ,[^1] they are _purpose_ maximizing. **** # More ## Source - [[Myself]] - [[Drive]] ## Related - [[Mermaid JS]] - [[Excalidraw]] - [[DrawIO]] - [[Logseq]] - [[Archi]] [^1]: Although plenty of open source projects have profit-based motives, see Red Hat Linux, for example.