1、Henry Chesbrough,Luiss University and UC BerkeleyForeword by Irving Wladawsky-Berger,MIT Sloan School of ManagementMeasuring the Economic Value of Open SourceA Survey and a Preliminary AnalysisMarch 2023Measuring the Economic Value of Open SourceCopyright 2023 The Linux Foundation|March 2023.This re

2、port is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.Respondents rate these benefits of open source the highest:Cost saving Faster development speed Open standards and interoperability Almost 2/3 of respondents report that the benefits of open source

3、 exceed the costs.The ratio of benefits to costs appears to be rising for nearly half of respondents.Most respondents believe it costs significantly less money to use OSSthan to provide the software functionality themselves.The median respondents report that the economic value of OSS is 1 to 2 times

4、 the cost of its use.31%of respondents reported that paying for equivalent software functionality would incur 4X the cost of OSS.3MEASURING THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF OPEN SOURCEAbstract and keywordsOpen source technologies,including the ubiquitous Linux operating system,are free to use,and consequently,

5、challenging to value in economic terms.While the reasons for contributors to offer code contributions have been extensively studied,the reasons for using open source,and the value of that use,have received less attention.Professor Henry Chesbrough conducted a survey of open source adoption with supp

6、ort from the Linux Foundation.This White Paper discusses the main results of the survey and what the perceived economic value of open source software(OSS)is to those who responded to the survey.Our sample tilts toward Fortune 500 firms.Results show that open source is,indeed,valuable,not only in its