Open source attracts more eyes on code, which improves security and invites community fixes, translations, and features. Contributors become a talent pool for hiring, and open source offers data security, white-labeling, and extensibility advantages that let companies outperform closed-source rivals.
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I love open source. I think it's the best way to build technology, not because it's open and accessible, but also because you end up building a better product. You have more eyeballs on the security of your product. You have people contributing, fixing typos, adding languages, fixing bugs, adding features. You have a fantastic pool of people to hire from that have worked with your codebase before you send him a contract. I think there's many reasons to be open source, such as, you know, data security and white labeling and extensions and community. But I've gotten to the point where I just think the open source companies will just build better products than their closed source alternatives. So I think that's a major learning for me.