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Harvard study: open-source has an economic value of 8.8T 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.
Because open-source applications are mostly free of charge and their usage figures can only be measured to a limited extent, their value could not be determined from the product of price and sales. To calculate the economic value, the authors of the study used salary data from the 30 countries with the highest user shares on GitHub. Most recently, Max Mehl from DB Systel also discussed the value of open source in commercial software development at the FOSS Backstage Conference.
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