Revealing the dark side of open source projects

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First of all I want to clearly state that open source has changed my life, allowed to quit my 9-5 job and dedicate my time to the things I love.

There are plenty of good things that come out of it, however, I'll be focusing on the dark side of it on this thread. 🌑

Have you ever stopped to look at the GitHub landscape?

It's not unusual to see companies leading the top starred/ forked and used libraries out there.

Angular (Google)
Font-Awesome (Twitter)
React (Facebook)
Bootstrap (Twitter)
Tensorflow (Google)
Flutter (Google)
VsCode...

Why is this?

Can't we all do open source projects?

What's going on here?

I myself sum more than 37K stars on my open source projects at GitHub and I've suffered the open source dilemma in some way or another.

Here's the thing: 👇