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James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 04:06:12 JST James Morris
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@juanan looking forward to see Harvard's increased investment in open source!

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  Attached: 1 image Researchers at Harvard Business School and University of Toronto used unique data to quantify the value of open source. Takeways: * Supply-side (cost to recreate) is ~$4.15B, but demand-side (value to firms) is $8.8T. Shows massive cost savings & productivity boost from OSS. * If OSS didn't exist, firms would need to spend an estimated 3.5 times more on software than they currently do. OSS provides a massive, often invisible, productivity boost. * A tiny fraction of OSS developers create the vast majority of value. Only 5% of developers are responsible for over 96% of the demand-side value * Firms should not just "free ride" on OSS but actively contribute to the ecosystem, as this is far cheaper than recreating the software themselves. Source: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

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