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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/OpenSustainability on 2024-03-01 23:24:01.

This article covers a proposal in Canada to give points for potential immigrants based on their open source contributions. One of the remarkable things about the proposal is the massive value that relatively modest contributions to open source projects provides the global community. From the paper it was based on - even the average contributor to Open Office that did something like 0.00716 % of the code produced value between $94,089 – $1.34m!