🏗 OSS Characteristics

We use and produce a lot of open-source software today. In fact more than ever before.

Open-Source development process does not cater to product deadlines, it aspires for best implementation resulting in meritocracy. This is strong and fundamental reason for its success. There is other side of the coin to consider as well. The quest for generalizing solution also makes it a good platform to build upon. There is a clear distinction between a product and platform, products will have narrow focus to solving the problem at hand, so if we treat OSS in the same vein we will be making a category mistake.

Weather it is a single library or a complex component like Operating System, OSS inherently has platform characteristics