BRAVO!!!
Only one small nit... $2.7M/year, starting in 1993 puts it at about
a $18.9M price tag. Ohhh.. and don't tell me we didn't have 150
committers back then, as the 10 to 20 of us where putting in way more
than 1 hour/day, some where doing more than 40 hrs/week for the first
year or two.
Some place some where I have the outline for a paper titled ``Free Software,
the Real Cost and Who has Payed Them''. Beyond the commiters there was
money spent by UCB and a dozen other colleges, much of which came from
federal funding via grants and darpa contracts. Another interesting stat
to toss out is the average line of code costs something like $50.00 over
it's lifetime including maintanance and recoding, if we stayed constant
at 6.6M lines it would have a cost/value of $330M!!!
> Since I probably am about to step in a puddle of gasoline with what I am
> about to say, I'd just like to preface this with this isn't meant as an
> attack on anyone, but instead as some food for thought. I'm not
> particularly good with saying things in a tactful manner, and I'd rather
> not muddy what I'm trying to say by "softening" it.
>
> It seems that a growing number of posters to the list seem to not
> understand that FreeBSD and other OpenSource projects have a real cost
> which every user should help to bear.
....
>
> Now think about this: The "committers" have donated 2.7 million dollars
> of labor to FreeBSD, what have you done?
$2.7M in just the last year... :-) Ohh.. and the 1 hour/day thing would
barely allow a committer the time to read the mandatory -commit mail in
order to be a committer :-) Another words each of those 150 people is
burning about $18,250/year of his/her own time just reading email.
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