| No. Open source projects are not automatically products. Webster says:
Product:
Something (such as a service) that is marketed or sold as a commodity. For me, a product is something one creates due to demand or expected
demand that can be marketed and sold. An open-source project can be made simply for the joy of doing it
without any stress about demand, marketing or anything else.
Like going for for a walk, or a gme of chess, But an open-source project can also be started and created to scratch
and itch, that may become interesting for others perhaps becoming a product. And it can be created to fill a targetted demand as an intentional product. Here on Hackernews nearly all open-source projects are products and
exist in the hope of fame and/or money. But many of us have projects that are just for fun,
Like the compulsion to build your cms and your own static site generator
and everything in between and preferably a programming language and perhaps
an editor. Though all of those could become a product in some universe. I am certainly not going to share my craptacular ssg. |