Open source projects are always the best compared to paid products. There are still many paid products that rule the market, but there are also many open-source products that rule the market, and there is a strong reason for this. Many good features make an open source product a big hit features not in terms of the product itself, but the common features of an open source product.
Many people take ownership
When it is paid software, only one person or a company takes ownership. But open source software is different. Many people take ownership, and they even volunteer to add new features or fix bugs. If the user is continuously using this product, they wouldn't mind keeping it up to date. There is no need to wait for someone to come and do the bug fixes.
More secure than paid software
This is the biggest advantage here. People think that paid software is more secure because they can hold the company accountable, but if it is an open-source product, the source code is visible and available to everyone, and anyone can find vulnerabilities and issues in the code. This way, there is an open challenge always available to review the code and pick the best out of it. This makes open open-source product more secure than a closed-source product.
Community driven
If there are new features, communities easily join hands to do the testing, and they also contribute for new features. Not just for testing purposes, but the community provides a lot more, like support, for example. People think that if it is a paid software, there will be someone to hold accountable, but with open source, there is heavy support available because of the community. In some products, people share the way they use the product with others, making it easy to operate.
Projects live forever
Sometimes an open-source project becomes outdated because the creator or the founder stops maintaining the project. The good thing is that anyone can take ownership and fork the code, and start maintaining the project. I have seen this happening to many projects. Momentjs was one such project that was left out, but someone then started maintaining and started releasing new updates. A good idea is all it takes and if the idea becomes a hit, there will always be someone who would be willing to take up the project and provide updates regularly.
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