Understanding The State Of Open Source Funding In 2024
The Linux Foundation, Monday, December 23rd, 2024
We've long understood that people are the engine that powers open source. Prior research has found different ways to measure the value, aggregate investment, or cost to rebuild open source.
Yet, the state of actual open source investment has remained an opaque subject with limited visibility or understanding of the amount, or its impact
This summer, GitHub and Linux Foundation partnered with researchers from Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) to learn more about the state of open source funding today. The goal was to measure organization-driven investment with interest in the how and why organizations invest in open source software (OSS). The insights can then be used to inform recommendations to improve monitoring and investing in open source to create a more sustainable and impactful open source economy and people.