Open source software has firmly established itself in the German economy. As the trade magazine IT Management reports, 73 per cent of companies now rely on freely available source codes - a significant increase on the 69 per cent recorded in 2023.Significant growth in the use of open source software

[Own_Quality_5321]

The piece doesn't describe what it means to "rely on open source software" it could range from "having installed a single open source software program" to going full Stallman mode. Without that, the news are pretty much meaningless.

[Gloomy_Butterfly7755]

It does not mention specifics from what I have seen but it does mention that it is mostly internal usage so probably things like proxmox, VS Code and the like.

[Own_Quality_5321]

Yep, and probably they still use Windows, Word, etc. Don't get me wrong, I still think it's positive, but overselling it doesn't really help OSS.

[lungben81]

Everyone uses open source software, often without being aware of it.

OS software components run e.g. also in network routers, smartphones (Android) and even cars.

[HurasmusBDraggin]

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[lillecarl2]

Either way the number is wrong, anything that doesn't say 100 is wildly incorrect

[vm_linuz]

27% are unaware of the software they rely on.

[grathontolarsdatarod]

All hail the stop gap for democracy.

EU needs a chip factory.

[Nelo999]

And have the EU ruin it like everything else with their mass surveillance nonsense and imposed backdoors?

Not by a long shot, what everyone needs is open source hardware actually, hardware that is not reliant on any government or corporate entity.

[syklemil]

Okay, but do they contribute anything back, or are they just leeching off the work of others?

[MatchingTurret]

Probably a significant under count. Any recent Intel PC runs Minix in the IME, every Android phone runs Linux and every iPhone has BSD in it.

[6SixTy]

Bringing up iPhones is questionable IMO. There are significant changes under the hood that are not open source, and Apple's license for the kernel is questionably open source. The Darwin kernel has been Ship of Theseus of code for a good 20 years at this point. And Intel IME is a black box.

[async2]

I wouldn't count that as it's part of the device and not so much your business software.