Modern businesses depend on IT.

Be it bank payments, communication services, or actors like tax offices and police.

In order for a business to work, the whole ecosystem of information systems around the business must be working. The interesting part - the ecosystem heavily relies on open-source software. We all felt Log4j impact some time ago, but other open-source projects are the same important, we just haven't heard of them.

So 27% of UK Tech GVA may be, but if all open source disappeared tomorrow, our economy would have stopped to near absolute 0. Luckily that's a scenario for an Amazon movie, not for real life (fingers crossed).

The article is inspired by Amanda Brock (CEO of @OpenUK) post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amandabrocktech_opensource-opensourcesoftware-uktech-activity-7085908116105502720-Ed8m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop