No it is not, it depends on where you look.
Beautiful News
RSS
What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS) | About Feeds
I could charge for NetNewsWire, but that would go against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone.
from: inessential: weblog
Flickr
For both it API & Creative commons I’ve long appreciated flickr: Flickring Free & Good Call Flickr.
DS106
DS106– the open online course on digital storytelling that began at the University of Mary Washington and continues as a community of learners across the globe
Welcome to ds106
Small but mighty.
OpenStreetMap
To many to mention
Things people give away for love & money, small groups, weird ideas, indieWeb, mastodon, micro.blog, open source etc.