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An eye-opener are the eye-watering numbers in this Harvard study.

heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study

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 source tools.

www.heise.de · iX Magazin

Gert V 🇵🇸 @gert@social.coop
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@smallcirclesjust small circles 🕊 @fossham This is truly staggering.

Open-source software has an economic value of 8.8 trillion US dollars. Without open-source programs, 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 figure is attributable to 3,000 developers worldwide. In addition, open-source software is included in 96 percent of all codebases.

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