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State of Open: The UK in 2021, Phase One

Released on 10 March 2021

The first ever State of Open report: a literature overview of open source in the UK drawing on the then soon-to-be-published European Commission report, Harvard, Linux Foundation, CNCF, IBM, Red Hat and Tidelift research, along with interviews. Sponsored by GitHub, Open Invention Network and SUSE.

Report Includes:

  • Literature overview of the State of Open, synthesising European Commission, Harvard, Linux Foundation, CNCF, IBM, Red Hat Cloud and Tidelift reporting
  • Interviews with UK open source leaders

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Executive Summary

  • The UK is a centre of excellence in open source software
  • Open source software contributes up to £43.1 billion to the UK economy
  • The UK is Europe’s number one contributor and one of the biggest contributors to open source software in the world

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