Measuring the Value of Open Source

Measuring the Economic Value of Open Source - Linux Foundation

This report discusses the perceived economic benefits of open source software, including cost savings, faster development, open standards, and interoperability.

Measuring Your Open Source Program's Success - Linux Foundation

“Reports are just a good way to raise awareness. Even though Facebook places a high value on open source (as an organization), it's still always a good thing to ...

The Value of Open Source Software - Harvard Business School

However, despite the increasing importance of OSS to all software (and therefore to the entire economy), measuring its impact has been elusive.

Open Source Software: Measuring the Value Using GitHub - Westat

Westat's Gizem Korkmaz, PhD, leads a study proposing a methodology to measure Open Source Software's value using GitHub data.

The Value of Open Source Software - Faculty & Research

However, it is difficult to measure the value of OSS due to its non-pecuniary nature and lack of centralized usage tracking. Therefore, OSS remains largely ...

45 Measuring the Economic Value of Open Source Software

The open source community under the Linux Foundation is working to identify a measure of the economic value of open technologies.

Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?

Existing research tends to value open source software by estimating the costs associated with its creation.

Measuring the Value of Open Source, Part One: Coming Up With ...

No matter the methodology used to calculate its value, it's certain that Open Source Software is an incredibly valuable commodity. The question is how to ...

How to Value Open-Source Software | Eqvista

According to this, the company can evaluate the worth of open-source software by comparing it with the value of similar software that is available in the market ...

The $9 Trillion Value Of Open Source - The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I explored how challenging it can be to capture the economic value of the digital economy, and that traditional metrics ...

The Open Source Business Metrics Guide - Scarf.sh

Open source is the original product led growth strategy. Getting people to try your product, find value, contribute, and use it over time. You still attract ...

A framework for measuring open source software innovation

This study presents a framework to measure the value of OSS using data collected from GitHub, the largest platform in the world with over 100 million ...

What is the Value of Open Source Software? - Kitware Inc.

A recent study came out from Harvard Business School that valued open source software at $9 trillion! They reached this amount by assuming ...

The Value of Open Source Software

Therefore, OSS remains largely unaccounted for in economic measures. Although prior studies have estimated the supply side costs to recreate ...

Eight triiiiiilllion dollars: the “new” valuation of open source

On the “demand side”, i.e., how it is used, they estimate that the value of open source is $8.8 trillion dollars. (Insert Doctor Evil pinky ...

Measuring Open Source Software Innovation - LinkedIn

The study presents a framework to measure the value of OSS using data collected from GitHub, the world's largest community where software is ...

Measuring the Cost of Open Source Software Innovation on GitHub

Open source software (OSS) is software that anyone can study, inspect, modify, and distribute freely under very limited restrictions, ...

Enterprise Open Source: Measuring Value, and Recognizing ...

That is why companies create Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) as dedicated teams within organizations to manage and support the use of open- ...

What's the Value of Open Source Software Based on Actual Usage ...

“In aggregate, these two datasets combined create the most complete measurement of OSS usage to date. ... Not accounting for this measurement ...

Measuring the Cost of Open Source Software Innovation on GitHub

In this paper, we use non-survey data to measure the scope and value of OSS, focusing on the projects ... These companies contribute to the open source ecosystem ...