> The market value of an open source library is the price you’d have to pay to replace it. Nope not at all. As long as somebody is willing to provide the code

> The market value of an open source library is the price you’d have to pay to replace it. Nope not at all. As long as somebody is willing to provide the code for $0 then the market value is $0. It is basic economics. The value of something is whatever you can get somebody to pay for it.