# kaal:claim:3808859-017

**Claim.** Open source software accounts for somewhere between 78 percent and 98 percent of all core digital infrastructure software, according to industry estimates.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- based on 2015 and 2017 industry survey estimates

**Source quote.**

> According to some estimates, open source software accounts for between 78%14 and 98%15 of all core digital infrastructure software.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades* (2021), IV.2 Proliferation, page 29

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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**Topics.** open-source-and-code, empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** open-source, digital-infrastructure, adoption, empirical-estimates

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