Weekend Read: The Value of Open Source Software

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Remember reading this last year, amazing paper!

Summary here if anyone is interested -

Papers We Love (FOSS Edition)

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 … Further, 96% of the demand-side value is created by only 5% of OSS developers Why studying the value of FOSS is important The parallels between shared grazing lands and shared digital in…