💸 Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
— Harvard Business School
｢ A new paper presents an eyebrow-raising figure. Without open source software and their ubiquitous code-creation networks, firms would pay an estimated 3.5 times more to build the software and platforms that run their businesses, or roughly $8.8 trillion, say Harvard Business School assistant professor Frank Nagle and two colleagues ｣