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From what I understand, using a monetary amount in this case isn’t meant to be taken literally, but to illustrate the impact open source as a whole provides, since money is probably the measure of “value” people are most familiar with and consider the most objective.

I like to think of it as an indicator of “value to society” and as a way to compare it with other efforts/ventures, even if it isn’t quite 1:1