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Submitting your own software is only cool if you have a huge healthy ecosystem. If you have 20 stars on github and you are the sole developer, that's not awesome. Consider what happens when you die (see also: truck factor) and lots of people depend on your software?
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This is a compilation of **Free and Libre Open Source Software ([FLOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software))**. Restrictive licenses (aka Freeware, Shareware) are *not awesome*. Please adhere to the following guidelines or your Pull Request will be closed. This is a compilation of **Free and Libre Open Source Software ([FLOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software))**. Restrictive licenses (aka Freeware, Shareware) are *not awesome*. Please adhere to the following guidelines or your Pull Request will be closed.
**Submitting your own software is not awesome**, unless you have a healthy ecosystem with a few contributors which aren't your sock puppet accounts.
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