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As GitLab CEO and cofounder Sid Sijbrandij explains, "By harnessing the power of the crowd, open source software allows developers to benefit from accelerated innovation, quicker development processes and having more success troubleshooting when problems arise."
In addition to individual developers, it has also become foundational to companies. “Open source software has become critical to organizations of all shapes and sizes," says Ewen. We will start seeing complete platforms that include both open source and proprietary components coming to the market, taking full advantage of what open source has to offer while making it easy for companies to quickly adopt the technologies.”
Read more here:
How Open-Source Development Is Democratizing The Tech Industry
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurencebradford/2018/03/26/how-open-source-development-is-democratizing-the-tech-industry/?sh=47c1678d3bb6
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Amine Moulay Ramdane.