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We always knew we wanted to make our community platform open source. Making the code available for free for people to use and contribute to seemed a logical next step for a platform engrained in the gift culture. Indeed much of the growth of the best parts of the Internet has depended on the growth of the open source movement: from Wikipedia, to WordPress (which hosts 24% of all websites!) to the very beginning of the Internet itself — when Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave the language away for the world to use.