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Researchers at Harvard Business School and University of Toronto used unique data to quantify the value of open source.
Takeways:
- Supply-side (cost to recreate) is ~$4.15B, but demand-side (value to firms) is $8.8T. Shows massive cost savings & productivity boost from OSS.
- If OSS didn’t exist, firms would need to spend an estimated 3.5 times more on software than they currently do. OSS provides a massive, often invisible, productivity boost.
- A tiny fraction of OSS developers create the vast majority of value. Only 5% of developers are responsible for over 96% of the demand-side value
- Firms should not just “free ride” on OSS but actively contribute to the ecosystem, as this is far cheaper than recreating the software themselves.
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That’s a little bit like trying to “quantify” the value of laughter or beautiful sunsets or a human life.
But if you won’t quantify value of laughter then how will you know how much to charge for it?
a very sad /s
Open source has a permanent place. Corporations value them.
Google. - Kubernetes. - TensorFlow. - Go. - Angular. Meta. - React. - PyTorch. - GraphQL. ... Microsoft. - VSCode. - TypeScript. - Playwright. Netflix. - Chaos Monkey. - Hystrix. - Zuul. LinkedIn. - Kafka. - Samza. - Pinot. RedHat. - Ansible. - OpenShift. - Ceph Storage.
