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

Therapist: Young Willem Dafoe isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.

Young Willem Dafoe:

It is telling that I read the entire post feeling varying degrees of incredulity and despair, yet what really upset me was the missing <rant> at the beginning.