There are a lot of open source projects out there. Here is a list of some very popular examples, most of them are hosted on GitHub, that’s because it’s a great platform for collaboration.
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Bootstrap is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
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Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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Filezilla is a free, open source FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
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Gitbook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books and exercises using GitHub/Git and Markdown... and is the tool you and I are actually using.
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jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library.
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Linux is a famous computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution.
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Less is the dynamic stylesheet language.
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OwnCloud gives you freedom and control over your own data. A personal cloud which runs on your own server.
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PHP is the most popular web programming language on the web, powering Facebook and more than 80% of the web.
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Ruby on Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications.
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The Android Open Source Project is the official mobile operating system as an open source project.
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WordPress is one of the most popular content management system on the web, is used by millions of people.
And a lot more, this list is just to show you that all this great software we use today was possible because of people’s collaboration, so yeah, open source matter... a lot.