“The Value of Open Source Software by Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou :: SSRN”

We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist.

As I’ve said before, most of the software industry’s value is created by F/OSS

@baldur This is just one example of how so much of our society (and very few people who get rich in it) is ultimately based on free labour. It's… incredibly bleak.