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Saurabh Daware 🌻 • Edited

you OPEN the SOURCE code for others to see, change and develop upon.

There are two types of people:

  1. Who like to create
  2. Who like to contribute
  3. Also, a third type who do both.

For people who like to create
It gives them ability to showcase their code, let other people help them in building it and let other people have their own version of your app

For people who like to contribute
it gives them ability to contribute to their favorite apps/libraries.

cool part?
it doesn't ask for experience or no need to go through hectic interviews! just write code and submit it and boom! the new shiny cool famous library would have your code in it!!!