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Open source added €65-€95B to the EU's GDP in 2021 (shiftprint.writeas.com)
28 points by manyty 909 days ago
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The article seems to be a lead in for promoting Blockchain and Web 3 stuff. :(
Yes, it's from 2021. A quote:

  I'm closely following the non fungible token (NFT) space at the moment
Do you mean the academic data ownership piece?
The paper linked is also worth reading:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-020-00404-9

It builds on the foundational concept of informational self-determination, and highlights well the various schisms involved. Therefore, I remain also a little skeptical about the NFT/blockchain/etc. solutions at a non-technical level.

Data ownership as a redistributive element is very appealing I must say
> Data ownership as a redistributive element

Of course, and especially regarding non-personal data, but with personal data you always have the fundamental issues discussed in the paper. At a technical level, for instance, you have the issues with the right to erasure, the right to correction, and some other rights; I haven't followed the blockchain space close enough to know where the state-of-the-art is.

Fair
Which is vanishingly small, no?
Not sure because there isn't much historical data on this

Also this depends on how they calculate it but would love to see a breakdown by different applications. E.g. what happens if some proprietary software uses open source elements vs fully open source software