🫧 socialcoding.. on Nostr: #FOSS has an economic value of 8.8 trillion US dollars. Without FOSS companies would ...

#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.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html