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THE VALUE OF OPEN SOURCE

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Summary from the TLDR newsletter

People open source projects for various reasons. Some do it to build a company or product, others do it performatively, and some ship code just for the love of the game. Open source was never free to copy, and the code was never the moat. AI can remake a product, but it can't provide the rest of the value a company generates. The technology is helping maintainers ship and fix problems faster.