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
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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