Open source is everywhere. It's in your computer at home, it's in your computer at work, it's on the internet, and a lot of it is managed with Git. Because Git is decentralized, many people also think of it as a kind of crowdsourced backup solution. The theory is that each time someone clones a Git repository to their local computer, they are creating a backup of the project's source code. If 100 people do that, then there are 100 backup copies of a repository.
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