[manojlds]

I am not a great open source contributor, but I always come across bugs, performance issues, feature improvements etc. which I contribute to the open source projects I am using. In closed source all I can do is raise a bug request / feature request and wait till the team decides to fix it or never. All the features / scenarios / corner cases may not be encountered / thought of by the main development team and it is great that a real user can contribute to the project to make it better. With Github, feature improvements / bug fixes are just a fork away.

Granted, this is not going to be applicable in the same way to something like the ASP.NET etc. but open source works, for me.