In the Indian startup circles, Atmanirbhar (self-reliance) is the word of the year. Technology startups of all shapes and sizes, “unicorns” and non-unicorns have incorporated the tri colour and the Made in India label into their brand messaging and advertising campaigns—marketing prowess and valuations built on top of rapid innovation enabled by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) created all over the world by countless programmers volunteering their time and effort writing code for everyone to solve problems and build enterprises. Linux, the quintessential example of FOSS, if quantified, would turn out to have created trillions of dollars in value for humanity.
