Here’s a link to a recently(?) published paper by a trio from the Harvard Business School and U of Toronto. It’s a trove of information for those interested in the dynamics of OSS.
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ansh
21 March 2025 11:52
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Remember reading this last year, amazing paper!
Summary here if anyone is interested -
Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper on The Value of Open Source Software by Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou
The key highlights from the paper are
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
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Further, 96% of the demand-side value is created by only 5% of OSS developers
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