Panelists at the UN Open Source for Good Panel [from left]: GitHub's Demetris Cheatham, Eclipse Foundation's Mike Milinkovich, Google's Sophia Vargas, Bangladesh policy advisor Anir Chowdhury, and Apache Software Foundation's David Nalley. How big a deal is open source? According to a January 2024 Harvard Business School study, rebuilding open source software OSS would cost $8.8 trillion if companies had to develop equivalent technology. Of that cost, 96%
