Companies actively investing in open source are seeing massive returns, while those treating it as “freeware” are drowning in technical debt.
Here is the tech industry’s ugly little secret: Companies make billions from open source while spending peanuts to support it. A new report from the Linux Foundation, ROI for Open Source Software Contribution, reveals that organizations giving back to their core projects realize a staggering 2x to 5x return on their investment across code, community, and capital.
“Organizations that contribute…

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