The conclusion? The economy is significantly benefitting from open source. In 2018, estimates the research, there were at least 260,000 contributors in the EU, representing 8% of employees in the computer programming sector. They made a total of 30 million contributions, and produced a volume of code equivalent to the full-time work of 16,000 developers. That same year, concluded the analysts, the economic impact of open-source software stands between €65 billion ($77.8 billion) and €95 billion ($113.7 billion). https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-are-open-source-developers-really-worth-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-say-economists/
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