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Yesterday I wrote about why software funded with tax dollars should be Open Source. Based on the feedback in email and social media, lots of people seem to agree.
Today, I want to highlight how this could be a game changer for Open Source sustainability.
Using Drupal as an example, let's do some quick math. Imagine if:
- 1,000 government agencies around the world (federal, state, or local) spend an average of $300,000 a year on their Drupal sites.
- 5% of that investment results in Open Source contributions.
Even if these numbers are conservative, it would lead to $15 million in annual contributions to Drupal: 1,000 x $300,000 x 0.05 = $15,000,000. That could be 150 full-time contributors each year.
In other words, requiring public code in government could be Open Source's best funding mechanism.
About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web
