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and the incentive system for free software is tangibly different enough to those of proprietary commercial software that you get better, more polished, performant products that you can’t with the latter
From what I understand, using a monetary amount in this case isn’t meant to be taken literally, but to illustrate the impact open source as a whole provides, since money is probably the measure of “value” people are most familiar with and consider the most objective.
I like to think of it as an indicator of “value to society” and as a way to compare it with other efforts/ventures, even if it isn’t quite 1:1
Trying to put a value on open source, there will never be a value to equal what open source provides the people.
How do you put a value on somebody’s passion who works hours long to create something free of charge.
and the incentive system for free software is tangibly different enough to those of proprietary commercial software that you get better, more polished, performant products that you can’t with the latter
From what I understand, using a monetary amount in this case isn’t meant to be taken literally, but to illustrate the impact open source as a whole provides, since money is probably the measure of “value” people are most familiar with and consider the most objective.
I like to think of it as an indicator of “value to society” and as a way to compare it with other efforts/ventures, even if it isn’t quite 1:1