26th March 2025
We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used OSS is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist.
— Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou, The Value of Open Source Software, Harvard Business School
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