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+title: Week 1 Learning About Open Source Development
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+# My Thoughts About Open Source
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+- I guess when I hear open source, I immediately think about the codebase being available to all.
+  Available to all as in being accessible on demand without restrictions. Based off of the readings, 
+  I guess I was somewhat right about what it meant. However, I did note the distinction being free sofware
+  versus open source. I personally think open source is great and a number of technologies that everyone uses
+  daily would not be possible without some initial base project being open sourced like linux to android.
+  Compared to closed source, open source offers people an incentive to contribute to build a community-based
+  project that is to benefit all. This doesn't mean, like we discussed in class, that open source will be solely
+  used for good. As per the open source guidelines, nothing is stopping someone from doing something nefarious or 
+  illegal using open source software since there shall no discrimination against any group using or for what purpose.
+  What is illegal is for the courts to decide. Though, open source, again, is amazing for providing otherwise
+  perhaps paywall locked closed source software. Also with closed source software, we do not know what is exactly 
+  running with it (for all I know there can be a bitcoin miner as discovered with numerous softwares as of late)
+  while open source, the users can check out the codebase and see if there is anything else going on. That being said,
+  I want to contribute to open source and I found this class as probably a pretty good gateway to learning what I need
+  and what I don't need to know about contributing. As a beginner to this, I am grateful such class exists and I hope to
+  learn more and be open about new technologies and where open source development takes me!
+
+# Some Open Source Projects That I've used
+
+- Immediately off the top of my head when I hear open source, I think about [Asahi linux](https://asahilinux.org/about/). As we know, Apple switched to
+  their own silicon cpu/gpu/(apu?) chips which is ARM-based and is not very compatible with booting other sofware
+  onto their hardware. Asahi linux is an open source project that seeks to create a remixed Fedora distro on M1, M2, etc. 
+  Apple silicon chips. I've been following this project a lot as I currently own an M1 mac and am planning on possibly making
+  the switch or dual-booting if they eventually get more of their hardware-software connectivity issues fixed (like audio drivers).
+  Another open source project, that I actually use daily is [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/). I more or less read Wikipedia for fun, so it's really great to see that something like Wikipedia exists and is actually very well maintained and accurate at most times. 
+  Another one is [React](https://react.dev/) which many people use to build the front-end of their websites. I actually used React in my own personal [website](https://bradleyhuang.tech). React is pretty great and is maintained by Meta which is great to see since many big tech companies maintain open source projects. Lastly, [Neovim](https://neovim.io/) which is a fork of vim what I use almost daily as a daily driver when I am in the terminal. There's even a whole custom GUI scene developed from Neovim depending on the user's usage and needs which I think is really cool and not
+  possible without it being open source.