> The derived FOSS surplus generates billions, if not trillions, of dollars of value for the economy
So I don't think the author is considering 4B to be the real number.
According to [1], the entire tech industry is worth 5T globally. And gas grown at about 14% per year.
IMO it's realistic that we'd be 10 years behind where we are now without open source. So that makes OSS worth 5-5/1.14^10 = $3.6T.
1: https://worldmetrics.org/tech-industry-statistics/
> The derived FOSS surplus generates billions, if not trillions, of dollars of value for the economy
So I don't think the author is considering 4B to be the real number.
According to [1], the entire tech industry is worth 5T globally. And gas grown at about 14% per year.
IMO it's realistic that we'd be 10 years behind where we are now without open source. So that makes OSS worth 5-5/1.14^10 = $3.6T.
1: https://worldmetrics.org/tech-industry-statistics/