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原始链接: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43432670

哈佛大学的一项研究估计,开源软件(FOSS)的经济价值达8.8万亿美元,其中95%的价值来自大约3000名开发者的贡献。96%的代码库都集成了开源软件。 Hacker News上的评论员对这项研究的结果做出了反应,其中一位评论员强调了少数开发者的贡献比例过高。一位评论员计算出,每位开发者创造的价值为28亿美元。其他评论员认为,像Linux、PostgreSQL、OpenLDAP和Nginx这样的开源基础设施解决方案显著降低了托管成本,如果使用专有替代方案,将会导致价格大幅上涨。一位评论员还指出了将更多财富和权力集中在比尔·盖茨这样个人手中的潜在负面外部性。另一位评论员则担心这些开发者并没有得到与其贡献相匹配的足够报酬。


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Harvard study: open-source has an economic value of 8.8T dollars (heise.de)
17 points by codeman001 39 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments










Wow, killer of a first paragraph.

>Around 95 percent of this figure is attributable to 3,000 developers worldwide. In addition, open-source software is included in 96 percent of all codebases.

Not shocking to see the big guns coming hard at FOSS.



$8.8T*0.95/3000 = $2.8B


That value and cost-factory is likely a higher multiple when talking about infrastructure. If everyone had to pay for Windows (or a similar OS) instead of Linux and numerous other systems (PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP, Nginx, ...) our costs for hosting services would move up at least an order of magnitude.


And you also would have to factor in the negative externalities of giving the profesional managerial class like Bill Gates more money and power.


And no company pays them enough to even cover the living expenses.






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