Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · Nov 18 8/ I construct a panel of firms operating the world's top websites. First, I identify OSS used to build archived homepages of the top 10,000 websites (2014-2022). Then, I link web OSS → 200K GitHub contributors → employers on LinkedIn → back to these websites.
3 likes 1 replies
?
Replies
9/ Using survey data, I convert OSS activity and LinkedIn employment into hours of OSS and in-house investment. While OSS investment is rare and concentrated, web OSS usage is widespread and dispersed.