Why is Higgins open source?
By hosting the Higgins project at an open, vendor neutral location, we are fostering an ecosystem to build a common infrastructure that can be reused rather than having developers recreate the wheel over and over again. The more software that works with Higgins, the more value Higgins provides to the people who use it. Since anyone can inspect the source code, developers know what they are getting and that it can be trusted. Trust is key with identity software.