Years ago, when I first got started in the software development industry, I had very little experience with open source software. I was vaguely aware of the concept, and I was aware of older terms like "shareware" and "freeware", but the entire ecosystem of FL/OSS was alien to me, so much so that RHEL meant nothing, and "Red Hat" sounded like something that would go great with a red suit.
As I started becoming more adept (read: less useless) at developing, I slowly become exposed to more and more libraries containing code that I could adopt, frameworks that made it easier to work with programming languages, huge repositories of code that contained many thousands of man hours -- all for free!
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