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The Economics of Open Source Dev Tools: A Quantitative Analysis of GitHub Stars, Funding, and Revenue Models 2020-2025
A Quantitative Analysis of GitHub Stars, Funding, and Revenue Models 2020–2025
Aditya Pandey2025
Open source software powers the modern technology stack, yet the economics of building sustainable businesses around freely available code remains paradoxical. This paper examines the relationship between open source adoption metrics, funding patterns, and revenue model effectiveness across developer tools from 2020 to 2025. Through quantitative analysis of GitHub star counts, funding data from Cr...