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> Open source companies build trust by sharing the entirety of their codebase to the public

This mostly only builds trust with fellow developers. I can see why it would be seen as trust building, but I don't think it builds as much trust as developers would like to believe. Not an argument against open source at all, just interesting to think about how you sell open source as a feature to an end user.

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Also trust cuts both ways. Ultimately if you produce bloated, frustrating bug-ridden software, sharing the source online probably isn't going to help your case.

There's a significant collection of software that I didn't trust out of the gate, and I now trust a lot less after reading the source (Apache projects, I'm looking at you).

>This mostly only builds trust with fellow developers.

Trust is highly transitive for highly technical developer focused products though. The core of stripe's trust, even among non technical decision makers, is down to their killer APIs and docs.

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