Here’s your article I rewrote out of boredom. Your article is fine I just wanted to practice on something. Take my input and like it. Grrrrrr lol

Do you like food? I know i do. What about cooking?

Well, If you enjoy cooking, you have likely found a recipe online. You’ve probably copied it, and even possibly out of necessity, altered it. Adding your own ideas to it, maybe an extra ingredient or even removing parts you don’t like. Maybe it just inspired you to make something from scratch that was similar. At that point, it basically becomes your recipe yet it contains the original intent. To offer up the best creation possible. This is the common culture of the culinary world.

The digital world has yet to fully embrace the philosophy of sharing.

Many sectors of technology still cling proprietary only business models. Video game development, automotive systems, social media, all lean away from sharing.

Microsoft, IBM, and Apple originally were completely closed off to ideas of open source. Those ideas of open source, often considered to be rivals, are now wading into the mainstream.

Functional blockchain technology and Android OS would not even be possible without open source software. Microsoft now includes backward compatibility to Linux. Corporations are slowly updating to a better way of creating.

Tesla is one example of a corporation leading the way. They use the open source Linux kernel in every vehicle they produce. Even their websites use some form of GNU/LINUX, which is in-line with other large corporations as it is the industry standard.

But wait! If most corporations use open source for their websites, how come they hide their profits behind proprietary tech?

“Free” software. It’s often misconstrued to mean that your creation will be used by others without paying you. But that’s not open source, that’s piracy, a topic for another discussion. Free Software shouldn't be thought of as "free" as in price. It means it enables the end user to improve the code for the benefit of others. Code is complex and benefits from many developers.

Many people scouring It safeguards against abuse as its harder to hide malicious code. It helps prevent mistakes that can cost companies millions. It improves the overall functionality for an end user that wants one thing, for the product to work. More profit, safer software, happier customers. You can see why the industry is shifting.

Microsoft and IBM are currently banking on the future of open source as the standard. Microsoft purchased Github and IBM acquired Redhat. They may only see the profits of open source but their integration is a benefit to everyone.

Tesla is doing even more than integrating, the are building. They recently announced that the plan to adapt the driver-less vehicle AI to be fully open source. Already holding open source patents, something no other automaker has done. You can take advantage of theses patents, build from them, adapt them. They are showing the industry how it’s done.Tesla is driving open source technology into the future, top down and radio blasting with a trail of cash blowing in the wind.

Not to sound like a Tesla promotion, they do have problems. I use Tesla as an example of an industry leader, but also to draw contrasts to far extreme of the other side. Completely closed proprietary technology, not that the technology is inherently bad. It just allows abuses that would be filtered out with open source.

Enter the world stage: Facebook.
That’s right, a company selling every speck of information you gave and a lot you didn’t. Using its platform to manipulate businesses and politics while making billions. ‘Oh your whole country was sent into upheaval? Yeah, it’s just a glitch in our “algorithm”. ‘Spying on your every keystroke and listening to your every word, oh that pesky’ “algorithm”.

Ok I made those quotes up to poke fun at the lunacy of what they did. Using the shelter of closed source software for nefarious purposes. Here’s a real quote,

"We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake.”
-Mark Zuckerberg

Open source would have absolutely prevented that still ongoing fiasco. Sharing is best for everyone involved. It’s safe and profitable. Share your software, don’t be a Zucker.