Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 96 | Page 36

FEATURE: OPEN TECHNOLOGY

HOW YOU SHARE AS WELL AS GENERATE REVENUE IS REALLY CRITICAL FOR THE FUTURE OF OPEN SOURCE. challenges and understand that the entire industry has these same challenges. For the UK, it’ s enabled us to have Europe’ s biggest community of software engineers contributing to open-source projects.

The reason we are not an industry organisation based on company membership is that many of those individuals work for companies across the globe. Whilst they contribute over 27 % of our digital gross value add, which is a huge amount for the UK, they are often internationally employed, so we’ d not have
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