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Open source folks, I need your help. There's that number, floating around the internet for YEARS now, that claims that ~70% of modern software components are made up of open source software.
I cannot, for the life of me, find the actual source for that. As in, who arrived at that estimation and how.
Can someone please help me track that down or put me in touch with someone who might know?
@vmbrasseur it predates that one and while the earliest mention does come from a Synopsis study, it doesn't provide any rationale for the estimate.
@juliaferraioli Synopsys has been making the claim for years, IIRC, but I don't recall ever seeing methodology for their reports.
@vmbrasseur that's my suspicion but I want to see if someone can prove it wrong
@juliaferraioli @vmbrasseur FWIW I’ve never seen a concrete methodology. If you’re going by pure package count, the number is almost certainly more like 95-99%; LOC… hard to say, especially since much depends then on whether you’re including “just” libraries or everything from the firmware up.
@luis_in_brief @vmbrasseur I really want to know which flavor of bullshit it is so that we can demonstrate why publishing methodology is important
@juliaferraioli @vmbrasseur the challenge is that methodology without a data source is low value, and the data sources by nature have to stay private.
@luis_in_brief @vmbrasseur easy solution: don't make the claim
@luis_in_brief @vmbrasseur seriously though, having the methodology does give it more weight even without the backing data.
With neither it's completely made up