I believe people can get more experience in general with open source
technologies than they can with closed source. The reason is simple:
I can look at the code. I can study it. I can see what
${APPLICATION} is doing, and how the developer designed it. This, in
itself, makes me better at what I do, and better at troubleshooting my
own code.
I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to
zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to do.
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
If anyone would do this, soon someone else would see it because source
code is available for everybody.
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