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This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Foundation.
I am wondering if a company could be operate based on the software that is open source. For example, shuup.com. This business looks like they have provided code on Github(https://github.com/shuup/shuup). Is it a safe thing to do so? Wouldn't hackers abuse by knowing how the system works? If this is a normal thing to do, what are the ups and downs?
GitHub (now a subsidiary of Microsoft) has released and maintains several open source projects
The entire dotnet framework, the main programming framework created and owned by Microsoft is entirely open source. You can see the foundational source code for nearly every Microsoft product right here. I could write a book listing all the big famous tech companies that have billions of dollars worth of products built upon open source code. So yes, it is a normal, safe thing to do.