Comment by trickstra

As I said above: Open-source is about what happens if the original author stops working on it. Having the code viewable/inspectable is a side effect of that - can't sustain a project if all you have are blobs. Famously, Richard Stallman started GNU because he wanted to fix a printer: "Particular incidents that motivated this include a case where an annoying printer couldn't be fixed because the source code was withheld from users." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...