Reid • Dev on Reid Kleckner Dot Dev · Feb 18, 2026
Open Source Software Projects Are Brands
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Apologies for the reductive, attention-grabbing title. Clearly OSS projects are communities first, and brands and many other things second. This line of thinking was prompted by some late night doomer reflections on the role of OSS in an LLM-driven future, and I came to this surprising realization that open source projects (or at least federation projects ), are largely about creating reputation…
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