3 years ago

Category: Software, Business

Almost three-quarters (72%) of organizations that frequently contribute to upstream projects get above-average value from their membership in open source foundations, according to our recent “Open Source in the Enterprise” Open Source in the Enterprise survey. Yes, this conclusion serves the interests of the Linux Foundation, which co-sponsored the survey, but the fact remains that those investing in open source foundations are generally happy. Foundations are created to formally govern open source projects and ensure that no one vendor has too much control.

Twenty-nine percent of respondents’ organizations are members or sponsors of an open source foundation such as The Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenJS Foundation, and the Linux Foundation.

It is true that companies with more than 10,000 employees and IT and software companies are more likely to be members of an open source foundation.