Keynote: The Economic Value of Open Source
summary
Claim that global open source embedded in commercial software equals about $9 trillion in replacement value, derived by combining a Cookamo 2 lines-of-code replacement price with usage counts from a Linux Foundation Census of production packages. Measurement examples include scanning the US internet IP space with end mapap to estimate Apache deployment (about $12 billion then, ~9% of US prepackaged software spend) and a dataset of 12 million observations showing 5% of contributors produce ~96% of the value.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source value intro
- 1:24Measuring open source impact
- 3:10Digital dark matter study
- 7:40Global usage census
- 10:30Replacement cost models
- 12:55Business value of contributing
- 15:00Startups and open source
- 16:01When to contribute
- 18:50AI’s impact on open source
- 20:13Future research
- 21:18Q&A
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