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What if there was no open-source software
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pubDate: 2023-06-14
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archive/2023/06/14/what-if-there-was-no-open-source-software
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- open-source
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I was listening to a podcast today, and the question was mentioned - "What if there was no open-source software?".
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As a self-taught Developer who has worked with open-source technologies and become an expert in Drupal - an open-source content management system - this would have had a big effect.
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If there were no open-source frameworks or CMSes like Drupal, Symfony, Laravel or Vue.js, Developers would need to write everything from scratch, and companies would need to pay for the extra time.
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There would be no reusable knowledge as Developers move to different companies as everything would be written in-house.
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There would be no communities and events like conferences and meetups for open-source technologies.
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As well as frameworks, what about languages like PHP that are open-sourced? Would companies also need to write and maintain their own programming languages?
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What about Linux, which I use every day for my desktop environment and servers, and other tools like Neovim, PHPStan, PHPUnit and Pest that are all open-source?
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Even as someone who contributes to and sponsors open-source projects and their Developers, it's still a shock to think how things would work without open-source software.
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If you use open-source software, please consider sponsoring, supporting or contributing to the projects you use and depend on.
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