Jolly Wong is a policy fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
23 Sep 2024
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Last week I talked about how open-source software thrives on the pillars of transparency, trust and collaboration, creating a robust ecosystem that benefits developers, users and organizations alike.
OSS has come to play a critical role in the tech world over the past two decades with striking success. It runs more than half the world’s websites and, in the form of Android, more than 80 percent of its smartphones in 2024, according to Worldmetrics.org, an independent data aggregator.
There are two obvious reasons for its ubiquity, the first being economic.
Cost is the main reason many firms turn to Linux and other open-source software.
