*Do you trust your cloud storage? What about the keyboard app on your phone? And that new file manager app you have downloaded that does all kinds of cool stuff with your files?*

*Picking up from [my last article on trust issues related to closed or proprietary software](https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@imwatsi/trust-issues-and-trustless-open-source-systems) we use on a daily basis, I explain how I think Open Source will help get trust into the hands of capable technology.*

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Blockchain technology and encryption are creating an amazing platform for developers to build software that is incorruptible. By this, I mean software that is engineered in ways that ensure all stakeholders act in ways that benefit the ecosystem and those who don't can easily be mitigated. We need systems that empower productive people and incentivize even the destructively inclined to change their ways or lose value within the ecosystem. Software that we can actually trust, by choice, after doing our own due diligence. All the above areas and more, are going to be changed forever within the next few years. And it's all thanks to the Open Source movement.

So Open Source has really started to gain attention and momentum as of late, and the best is yet to come.


# What's next for Open Source?

Open Source will penetrate and take over every single area of software development that you can think of. It's basic principles are just too good to be ignored. It's moving with long strides, at an accelerated pace.

I've listed a couple of developments that I am expecting to take place in 2018:

## 1) Open Source will become more ubiquitous

There is no doubting it: open source and the wisdom of the crowd is a much better model for software development and the progression of humanity itself. With people all over the world, possessing different kinds of knowledge, wisdom and skill, all working together to create solutions, I am so excited about the future.

## 2) Open Source will continue to win the trust of people

As I stated in [my last post](https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@imwatsi/trust-issues-and-trustless-open-source-systems), trust issues are dealt with when software is developed in transparent ways and deployed in the same manner. Transparency is what will separate the brands that people will meet and continue to use from the brands that people will steer clear off and avoid. There's a lot of food for thought in this.


## 3) A lot of people will be freed

 I've been talking a lot about EOS for a while now and I'm just realizing how much this platform is going to change the world. I am just blown away by all the solutions that are going to be built on top of this technology. If you ask me, I would say that EOS is a platform on which many Open Source projects will be developed.

I believe in freedom; to work, live and innovate, with security of both life and economic value. I also believe that Open Source is going to produce most of the tools that equip us to have all the above-mentioned blessings, as it has already demonstrated in all the change we see today with cryptocurrencies.

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***Thanks for reading.***



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