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Many people wonder what the point of open source is? For those who don't get it, they think it is giving stuff out for free. They don't understand how BeagleBone exploded the way they did. More importantly, they don't seem to understand that the internet as we know it, or many innovations in terms of the modern world, wouldn't exist or be the same if it wasn't for open source. Even when you look at proprietary tech companies like Apple, one can argue figures such as Steve Wozniak were greatly inspired by the open hardware movement many decades ago.