The article “Why single vendor is the new proprietary” by Thierry Carrez is packed with smart ideas and information. The following quote is meant only as a representative sample of the overall content.

In the next 20 years, Open Source got overwhelmingly popular and unleashed a software revolution. A recent study by researchers at Harvard Business School estimated the demand-side value of Open Source software to be $8.8 trillion! In other words, without Open Source, companies would have to pay 3.5 times as much for software than they currently do. It’s estimated that 96% of software contains an Open Source component. Developing new software today without using any Open Source would be a pretty challenging endeavor.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.