#FOSS has an economic value of 8.8 trillion US dollars. Without FOSS companies would have to spend around 3.5 times more money on software. This is according to a study by Harvard Business School. Around 95 percent of this is attributable to 3,000 developers worldwide. In addition, open-source software is included in 96 percent of all codebases. [..] the supply value is 4.15 billion US dollars. In contrast, the demand value is 2000 times higher.
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Harvard study: Open source has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars
Open source software is worth trillions to the economy. However, researchers warn that companies contribute too little to the development of open s...