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While green software is a growing field and area of business interest, some organizations are concerned about their return on investment, delaying investment and adoption. Some [SOGS survey](/../survey) respondents said that while they rank sustainability as an important component of the software they produce, their employers would rank cost, quality, or profitability over sustainability. A SOGS respondent said, “I’d like to see more about the tradeoffs of applying green software with security, reliability, and above all, cost.” Another practitioner said, “My team is interested but is worried any changes would be difficult to implement with marginal rewards.” One person told us they felt the [SOGS survey](/../survey) should also have asked, “How much is your company willing to invest in terms of time and costs to make [green software] happen?” Another respondent lamented that “It's just really hard to incorporate green software practice into real-life software companies with a lot of pressure from management and limited budgets.” Clearly, there is a gap between the potential sustainability and business-related benefits that software practitioners think green software can offer and the current interests of many decision-makers in the ICT industry.
While green software is a growing field and area of business interest, some organizations are concerned about their return on investment, delaying investment and adoption. Some [SOGS survey](/../survey) respondents said that while they rank sustainability as an important component of the software they produce, their employers would rank cost, quality, or profitability over sustainability. A SOGS respondent said, “I’d like to see more about the tradeoffs of applying green software with security, reliability, and above all, cost.” Another practitioner said, “My team is interested but is worried any changes would be difficult to implement with marginal rewards.” One person told us they felt the [SOGS survey](/../survey) should also have asked, “How much is your company willing to invest in terms of time and costs to make [green software](https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/) happen?” Another respondent lamented that “It's just really hard to incorporate green software practice into real-life software companies with a lot of pressure from management and limited budgets.” Clearly, there is a gap between the potential sustainability and business-related benefits that software practitioners think green software can offer and the current interests of many decision-makers in the ICT industry.

The importance of open-source software, and the lack of investment in open-source solutions, were concerns raised by [SOGS survey](/../survey) respondents. One shared, “There is a systematic funding gap for creating public goods such as greener algorithms or greener open-source libraries or greener open-source software. Neither research funding nor start-up funding applies to non-profit engineering.” That said, there is evidence that open-source software is a growing area of business interest, and green software is poised to be part of that investment. According to Open Logic’s [2022 State of Open Source](https://www.openlogic.com/resources/2022-open-source-report) report, in a survey of businesses that use open-source software, 77% of respondents said they had increased their use of open-source software in the past year, and 37% of respondents said they had significantly increased their use of open-source software. [IEEE Computer Society](https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/open-source-software-for-business-growth) presents many business-related benefits of green software, including more collaboration and innovation across companies, better scalability and flexibility, and enhanced security since stakeholders can quickly catch and fix security issues.

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Some SOGS respondents referred to their interest in broader ethical questions about computing. One individual said, “I'd love to see [green software principles] expand beyond how we build things and into what we build. What is needed? What can we stop doing? How can we be more intentional about how ethical and ultimately useful our products and services are?” Software practitioners concerned about their work’s ethical implications might wonder why they are building particular technologies instead of others. And this especially applies to products that are likely to have a detrimental impact on the environment.
Some SOGS respondents referred to their interest in broader ethical questions about computing. One individual said, “I'd love to see [green software principles](https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/) expand beyond how we build things and into what we build. What is needed? What can we stop doing? How can we be more intentional about how ethical and ultimately useful our products and services are?” Software practitioners concerned about their work’s ethical implications might wonder why they are building particular technologies instead of others. And this especially applies to products that are likely to have a detrimental impact on the environment.

Another practitioner shared, “My last company had a ‘green committee.’ People from that committee said that we could not ask management to stop having customers from destructive and dirty industries. The green committee did not dare to ask for the big wins in carbon emission reductions.” Sustainability and other ethical considerations can conflict with business priorities. When competing priorities become a point of friction, software development teams feel less empowered to advocate for greener approaches. However, [Gogoll et al. argue ](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-021-00451-w)that while larger questions of what technology to build emerge from management decisions and business ethics, software development teams might have some control over the design of specific features, balancing, say, users’ privacy with business objectives.

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