What Makes An Open-Source Community So Special?

<p>The open-source community is interesting. It's massive and made up of brilliant men and women. It's also incredibly transient. What is it about open-source that makes people flock to it the way they do?</p> <p>Tom initially went to open-source so that he didn't have to re-build his work every time he switched jobs. Even though he wasn't well connected to people within the open-source community, his work quickly gained popularity. Why did this happen? Tom thinks it happened because found they could use his program Salt to solve their own individual problems. </p> <p>Most people in the open-source community are there for completely selfish reasons which is actually a great thing! This selfishness leads to community contributions, those contributions help each piece of software evolve and get better. Tom and Chunga each have a favorite piece of open-source software.  What are they? Listen now to find out!</p>