A firsthand account from the Linux Foundation Member Summit (Feb 2026) covering key themes: open source as critical global infrastructure, the economics of open source (estimated $8.8T value contribution to AI, $25B in unrealized value annually, 2-5x ROI for upstream contributors), digital sovereignty shifting from theory to
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For the OpenInfra community, that's not a pivot — it's alignment with the open source stack we've been defining for years.ROI on open sourceAI as a catalyst for open infrastructureDigital sovereignty: From policy to leadership“The spark of collaboration: Scaling OSS sustainability through industry teamwork”Other topics of interestMy key takeawayMore from We Love Open SourceAbout the AuthorSort: