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I feel like there is always more open source code to write. If not for practical reasons, then for experimental, educational or just humorous values.
Yes it's called experiential value, like an artist doing sketches, developers sketch their program. Open Source is not meant for production use. The industrial software library development should be done by professional software engineering companies in a socially responsible way.
The Microsoft Azure backend runs on Linux servers.
Your phone, router and all your networking hardware run on Linux or BSD.
Can you guess what's the back-end of VMWare? Veeam? FortiGate?
in the post of "small" open source, guess what kind of open source i am talking about.
How many production applications use Node, and therefore pull in a million dependencies like this?
slavery was legal
The 1800s called, they want their non sequitur back.
Any Linux system includes hundreds of small OSS projects.